New Photograms

Photograms created for a photography competition: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 

 

 

I have been making Photograms for over 20 years, but I have just recently started incorporating appropriated images into them. Before this addition, the photograms were pure abstractions but eluded to imagined imagery in the same way that looking at clouds evoke the imagination.

 A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey.     
Thanks to Wikipedia

Photograms by Terry Kreiter

  Da Vinci Digging for the Code

Satyr-Day Night Under the White House

Title: DaVinci Digging for the Code, 2013   19 x 7.5 inches,  Gelatin-Silver photogram

Satyr-Day Night Under the White House, 2013, 19 x 7.5 inches, Silver-Gelatin photogram

All photograms printed by Diane Kreiter

Painted glass plates, proofs, masks, and images on transparencies

Terry Kreiter, putting finishing touches to the glass plate, finger painting

The origin of these photograms began with the collection of some favorite images: iconic photographs,  images of some works by Albrecht Durer,  and drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci. Together, in a moment,  they sparked an idea and developed into an interrelated sequence. The rest was easy, especially since Diane would be taking care of the darkroom work.

 

Source material

Albrecht Durer, Self portrait,   1493,  23 years old

Albrecht Durer,  Satyr's Family

Leonardo Da Vinci,  Excavation Machine, pen and ink 1503-04

White House under Truman Reconstruction, 1948-1952  photo: Abby Rowe