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Ether 8, by Stefanie Valentin

Photograms began with plants and flowers, with Anna Atkins making botanical cyanotypes in the 1840s, and it still seems like a rich vein to mine in contemporary work. I’ve already posted links to some artists who work with bugs, botanics, and bodygrams, but here’s more of the good stuff:

bugs

• Stefanie Valentin makes colour photograms of butterflies and other insects
• Honey Bee: eight photograms of a bee by Amber Elliot
• Polaroid photograms of moths and flies, by Miles Sprietsma. These photograms are part of one of Miles’ larger projects, described in the short documentary film Insects, Art, & I
• Keith Carter’s recent Talbot’s Shadow series of photograms includes butterflies, birds, and bones.

Dandelion, by David Dennison

botanics

• David Dennison makes soft, delicate, colour flower photograms using film rather than paper.
• Jeff Tolentino works with Polaroid photograms, in this series Small Leaves
• Seven teatoned botanical photograms by Sean Scoggins: simple and elegant.
• Maple leaf: from a much larger set of black and white photograms by Brian Krummel
• Remedy: a single floral photogram by Brea Souders, that has some rather lovely background effects from contact printing with a wet negative and then tea toning the print.
• Giles Revell and Matt Whiley make photograms from dried, broken, skeletal leaves
• James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith collaborate to make photograms of plants dug from the earth or found in the sea (more can be seen here, and in the Nature’s Notations series)
• Angela Easterling, whose work includes commissions by the Eden Project, has some rather lovely sunprints and cyanotypes of both flowers and bodies on her site.

Awakening, stages I-IV, by Glenn Friedel

and a few more bodies…

• Glenn Friedel has been making large, bright, energetic body prints for over a decade
• Mark Mangan has a set of six lively black and white body photograms on Flickr

and, yes, there’s even more to come. Tomorrow: science is beautiful.

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