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Yoshio Machida
(Japan)[1967] b. Tokyo, l. Yokohama

chemigrams which the artist calls "photobatik and luminograms. E.g "mailexposure" (2004) documents the way from Europe to Japan by mails made out of photo paper. www.yoshiomachida.com


René Mächler
(Switzerland)[1936–2008] Zürich

concrete b/w photograms at exhibition "Am Nullpunkt der Photographie",1977-1997 www.fotostiftung.ch

"Vier senkrecht strahlend",1971, b/w luminogramm, 48 x 48 cm www.artist-info.com

videodocumentation in occasion of M.'s exhibition in Winterthur 2006 www.art-tv.ch


Martha Madigan
(USA)[1950–2022] b. Milwaukee/Wisconsin, d. Philadelphia/PA

larger plein air shadowgraphs made in the 70' and 80's with the cyanotype and Van-Dyck process. www.marthamadigan.com

b/w plant shadowgraphs from the 1980's are turned into textile designs by a fashion design company www.townandcountrymag.com

Falls Bridge (Northeast Side), June 15, 1982, outdoor cyanotype, 133 × 292.1 cm ilamuseum.org


Giovanni Manfredini
(Italy)[1963] b. Pavullo nel Frignano(MO), l. Modena & Milano

b/w body imprints www.ueber-menschen.de


Christian Marclay
(Canada)[1955] b. San Rafael/CA, l. NY

essay "Töne sehen/ Bilder hören" (1998) with b/w-photogram of transparent disc, 1990 www.foto.unibas.ch

cyanotypes of music tapes, 2008 www.whitecube.com

artist book (2022) by Patti Smith featuring thirteen colour c-print shadowgraphs by Christian Marclay www.arionpress.com


Ervin Marton
(Hungary)[1912–1968] b. Budapest, d. Paris

b/w photogram of hand with lace, between 1930 and 1960 www.stephencohengallery.com


Dóra Maurer
(Hungary)[1937] Budapest

Fotópapíron át letapogatott tárgy. 1976, b/w luminogram of thermometer web.archive.org

Shifts, series I,II,II, b/w abstract "field photograms", 1974 www.artpool.hu


Ingo Maurer
(Germany)[1932] b. Insel Reichenau, l. München

"Tableaux chinois", installation, light and shadow play with a mirror fish bassin. espace-holbein.over-blog.org


Amanda Means
(USA)[1945] b. Marion, l. NY

flower photograms 1996-98 created by putting flowers into the enlarger www.carleton.edu


Adolf de Meyer
(Germany)[1868–1949] b. Dresden, Germany, d. Los Angeles

glass shadows, photogravure 1907 (Camera Work 40, Pl. 13) www.jmcfaber.at

"The Shadows on the Wall, Chrysanthemums", photograph of projected flower shadow, platinum print, ca. 1906 metmuseum.org


Nino (Antonio) Migliori
(Italy)[1926] Bologna

Ossidazione, 1948 www.fotochepassione.com

Ossidazione, 1948, chemigram www.cultframe.it


Garry Fabian Miller
(UK)[1957] b. Bristol, l. London

Solar Eclipse Series, Light,ilfochrome photograms, 1999 www.phhfineart.com

Petworth House Series, ilfochrome photograms of a screen of wood obstructions exposed in the moonlight, 1999/2000 www.clevelandart.org

Cut Flower Blue, Lincolnshire, Spring 1985, ilfochrome photogram www.oxygen.force9.co.uk


David M. C. Miller
(Canada)[1960] b. Montreal

cliché verre on c-print paper, 1997-98 www.lonsdalegallery.com

"Collecting Shadows", exhibition with multiexposures on c-print, 2000 www.plugin.org


Ryuji Miyamoto
(Japan)[1947] Tokyo

"Pinhole Naoshima" & "Sagacho Shokuryo Building. Tokyo, 29 October", mix of pinhole and body shadowgraph on ilfochrome, 2002, 226 x 318 cm www.taronasugallery.com

ilfochrome body shadowgraph made in a large card box camera obscura, 2002 okunoshima-artproject.com

shadowgraphs of dead birds and insects, exhibited parallel to his Kobe photographs at Amador Gallery 2010 luxe64.wordpress.com


Curtis Moffat
(USA)[1887] Edgartown, MA

Abstract Compositions (1925), b/w shadowgraph of dragonfly and cliché verre/papier of drawing www.vam.ac.uk


Mina Mohandes
(Iran)[1965] l. Vienna/A

color chemigram on c-print paper, 1999 www.basis-wien.at


Achim Mohné
(Germany)[1964] b. Bochum, l. Cologne

Lasergraphs,b/w & colour sheet film exposed to laser light www.achimmohne.de

photogram position III featuring M.'s lasergraphs (2004) www.shadowgraph.org


Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
(Hungary)[1895–1946] b. Bácsborsòd, d. Chicago

Site of the Moholy-Nagy-Foundation providing basic information about M-N and presenting some of his shadowgraphs in a timeline www.moholy-nagy.org

two new year cards 1937 & 1938 with shadowgraphs made by MN and his wife Sibyl maas.museum

The mirror, enlarged positive b/w photogram, 1928 (orig. 1922-23),ca. 67x92 cm www.getty.edu

Hand and paintbrush, 1926 www.metmuseum.org

untitled positive shadowgraph, 23.7 x 17.8 cm, ca. 1922-1924 www.nga.gov

shadowgraphs from 1922-1943 including an early exemplar (14 x 9 cm) on printing out paper (collodion) www.artic.edu

untitled b/w shadowgraph of cut out transparencies and textiles, 50.6 x 40.3 cm, 1939 www.clevelandart.org

"self portrait", reprint (1973) of b/w-shadowgraph of a head from 1925 www.jmcfaber.at

"Photogram self-portrait", 37,3 x 25,3 cm, 1926 cs.nga.gov.au


Daro Montag
(UK)[1959] b. Rickmansworth, l. Islington

"Bioglyphs", chemigrams caused by interaction of microorganisms with slide film, 1994-2000 www.microbialart.com


 Moon
(Universe)[] b. solar system, milkiway ca. 4,6 billion a.Chr.

Total Eclipse of the Sun as seen by Meteosat-7 on 26 February 1998 between 14:30 and 21:00 UTC oiswww.eumetsat.org


Barbara Morgan
(USA)[1900–1992] b. Buffalo/Kansas, d. NYC

b/w shadowgraphs and luminogram, 1969-72 www.brucesilverstein.com


Michaela Moscouw
(Austria)[1961] Vienna

"33", body shadowgraph and exposed objects wrapped in photopaper: "Sessel", "Badewanne", 1999 www.fotogalerie-wien.at

"Plattdrucke" from thes series Portraitstücke, 1998, b/w shadowgraphs from heads web.archive.org


Ugo Mulas
(Italy)[1928–1973] b. Pozzolengo, d. Milano

article about the "verifiche" with a clich�e verre of broken glass www.exibart.com

essay about M.'s cycle "Verificazione" containing a clich�e of an empty 35 mm b/w film, 1971 www.museodellafotografia.it

"Omaggio a Niepce" in "Le verifiche", clich�e verre of film strips azioinwind.libero.it


Otto Müller-Eibenstock
(Germany)[1898–1986] b. Dorfstadt, d. Zwickau

A 10 F10 (Kreise), b/w shadowgraph, 1925, 14,1 x 9,2 cm kupferstich-kabinett.skd.museum


Andreas Müller-Pohle
(Germany)[1951] b. Braunschweig, l. Göttingen

Cyclograms, 1991-94, mix of chemigram and photogram of shredded photographs www.equivalence.com


Wolfgang Münch
(Germany)[1963] Karlsruhe

"bubbles", interactive installation working the shadows of the visitor, ZKM 2000 osting.zkm.de