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About Photogram Rayograph

The photogram is camera-less photography: objects laid directly on light-sensitive paper print as white and gray silhouettes on an inky black ground. Man Ray called his "rayographs"; Moholy-Nagy framed them as pure light composition. Fully exposed paper reads dense black, masked areas white, transparent objects gray — with silver halation where light bends around glass.

This system distills that avant-garde darkroom into an interface: ghost-white forms, generous black negative space, and crisp geometric silhouettes ringed with silver glow.

Learn more about the Photogram Rayograph style

Origin
Western Europe (Paris Dada, Bauhaus)
Era
1900–1950 (rayographs from 1922)
Key figures
Man Ray · László Moholy-Nagy
Movements
Dada · Surrealism · Bauhaus · experimental abstraction

Photogram Rayograph design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
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Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

FuturaHeadings
ArchivoBody
Josefin SansMono
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