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Photograph

Artist/Maker

Photogram by Curtis Moffat, battery, wire, and bulb


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Photogram by Curtis Moffat, battery, wire, and bulb
Dimensions
  • Height: 375mm
  • Width: 304mm
Credit line
Given by Penelope Smail
Object history
In Paris during the 1920s, Moffat collaborated with Man Ray, one of several avant-garde artists to revive the photogram, which was originally used at the invention of photography in the 1830s. Man Ray called his photograms 'Rayographs.'

Moffat's photograms are among the earliest examples of the 20th-century interest in camera-less, abstract photography.
Association
Collection
Accession number
E.2559-2007

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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