| 单词 |
rayograph |
| 释义 |
rayograph|ˈreɪəʊgrɑːf, -æ-|
Also with capital initial.
[f. the name of Man Ray (1890–1976), U.S. artist and photographer, + -o + -graph.]
A type of photograph made without a camera by arranging objects on light-sensitive paper which is then exposed and developed. Cf. photogram 3. Also ˈrayogram.
1932N.Y. Times 17 Apr. viii. 11/5 Julien Levy Gallery—Photographs by Man Ray. A fine retrospective, including a group of ‘rayograms’. 1937Photography 1839–1937 (Museum of Mod. Art, N.Y.) 68 Man Ray refers to his shadowgraphs as ‘rayographs’ or ‘rayogrammes’. 1942P. Guggenheim Art of This Century 106 Man Ray..took up photography in 1917. Invented Rayograph technique, 1921, and explored other possibilities of photography, especially in making Dada and Surrealist compositions. 1951J. I. H. Bauer Revolution & Tradition Mod. Amer. Art iii. 28 Dada attracted only one distinguished American follower, the painter and photographer Man Ray, much of whose life was spent in Paris where he produced without the use of a camera his extraordinary ‘rayographs’. 1956Focal Encycl. Photogr. 836/2 Further developments came about 1921 when Man Ray and L. Moholy-Nagy..made their ‘rayographs’ and photograms, using not merely opaque flat objects but also three-dimensional and translucent ones. 1972C. W. E. Bigsby Dada & Surrealism ii. 19 The photomontage consisted of a collage of photographs. Like the Rayogram (a photographic process devised by Man Ray) it was a joke at the expense of realism. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 320/2 Man Ray was supporting himself by making fashion photographs in 1922 when he accidentally set a glass funnel, a graduate, and a thermometer on a piece of photographic paper, thus producing ‘Rayographs’. 1975New Yorker 19 May 13/1 (Advt.), The prices are more out of the ordinary: $7,500 is asked for Ray's rayograph ‘Egg-beater and Abstracted Segment of Living Space’. |
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