Details

Title

Untitled Photogram

Artist/Maker

György Kepes (American, born Hungary, 1906–2001)

Date

1937–1938

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from Charlotte Dixon

Accession #

2005.314

On View

Currently not on view

While teaching at the Institute of Design in Chicago Gyorgy Kepes embarked on a variety of light experiments, including the production of many photograms. To create a photogram objects are placed on a sheet of photosensitive paper, which is then exposed to light. The objects cast a range of shadows depending on their translucency and the intensity of the light. Kepes skillfully combined natural and man-made forms and developed a balance between realism and abstraction in his photograms, which are among the most dazzling and inventive works of the period.

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