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What name did Man Ray give to the cameraless photographic images he created by placing objects on light-sensitive paper?
Answer
Rayographs
Man Ray called his abstract, cameraless photographs 'rayographs,' a pun on his own name, after discovering the technique by accident in his darkroom in the early 1920s.
💡 Did you know?
Man Ray 'invented' rayographs by accident when he placed objects on light-sensitive paper in darkness, creating cameraless photographs that rivaled painting's abstraction.
Other options people guess
- Schadographs
- Vortographs
- Photogenic drawings
Topics
- photography
- man-ray
- surrealism
- 1920s
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