rayograph
English
Etymology
Ray + -o- + -graph, coined by Man Ray (1890–1976), American modernist artist, based on his own name.
Noun
rayograph (plural rayographs)
- A photogram of the kind produced by Man Ray.
- 2000, Lynn Gamwell, Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind:
- Man Ray developed a similar procedure for photography — montage and suggested the working of the unconscious mind by dropping objects randomly onto a light-sensitive surface in his rayograph process.
- 2004, Barbara Beth Zabel, Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde
- The artist constructed this rayograph by placing disparate objects — a notched collar and a strip of folded paper — on photographic paper.
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