Artistic Photogram

 Hey Teach, Finn here again!. This assignment is about a photographer we pick who you talked about during the photogram assignment. I was particularly enthralled by Floris Neususs beautiful night pictures, so I ran a simple search to see some of his other works. And, Wow. They are magnificent. I have the one that I saw first at the bottom of this blog but he has a unique and beautiful style, where he (obviously) worked without a camera. Specifically I found out that he was most famous for full body nude photograms, he would expose to make the body look like a spector. Before I dove a little deeper into his inspirations, I wanted to figure out his origins. Neususs was born in Germany and studied at a variety of art schools, which makes sense with the variety of style he has with his photograms, some are portraits, some simple objects, some with color, some without, but he consistently comes back to the shadow of a human. This interested me because he obviously sees something within this that draws him in, and I wanted to know what it was. I looked through an assortment of art sites and found a quote that gave me a little hint to what the man was thinking "It is true that the subject resting on the photo-sensitive paper presents its reverse side to be recorded, the side that is in shadow, the shadow cast by the object itself. This intimate physical connection inscribes into the paper, and this, if you are open to it, is the real fascination of photograms: the tension between the hidden and the revealed." It's a curious but enlightening quote, and I think it strikes true for anyone who does photograms. You can't see what your doing the entire time, but you can envision it, and when its done you can't see the real object, only a spector of it.

    My opinions on photograms are pretty limited. I think if I want to give an honest answer I would need a lot more experimentation, and a lot more creativity. I'm a pretty lacking artist, and I have trouble looking at the world as art rather than as a collection of things? (the best way I can put it) which is why I think my photograms came out more as a collection of things in a pleasing order because thats my current outlook on the photogram art. Perhaps if I spent more time thinking about what I want to show it would be more honest to what I actually want to show but for now that's the best I have.