background image: Daniel T. Braun: TPSC III (the perfect scratch) N° 9, colorfilm/C-Print, ca. 60x90cm, 2015
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Thomas Bachler
(Germany)[1961] b. Detmold, l. Dresden
large ouevre of conceptual b/w shadowgraphs, 1984-2003. Hightlights are shadowgraph series and shadowgraphs taken from moving objects. omasbachler.de
Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand
(France)[1945] b. Paris, l. Strasbourg
Rayogramme des araignée, 1988, b/w spider shadowgraphs www.baudoin-lebon.com
Anneaux d'eau, b/w positive photogram of a hand creating rings in the water, 1999. Text by Sophie Bellé www.plumart.com
Geraldo de Barros
(Brazil)[1923–1998] b. Xavantes/SP, d. São Paulo
"Sobras", prints from collages of cut negatives, 1996 www.geraldodebarros.com
Thomas Barrow
(USA)[1938] born in Kansas City, Missouri, l. Albuquerque
"Disjunctions 2" (1981) from the spray paint series is mainly spraied bad also seems to have aspects of a shadowgraph collections.eastman.org
"Discrete Multivariate Analysis", 1981, two b/w photograms with automotive lacquers and epoxy enamel www.museumofnewmexico.org
Heike Bartels
(Germany)[] b. Köln, l. New York
Untitled (Mandala), 1997, b/w-luminogram evoqued by mirro reflection www.carleton.edu
Massimo Barzagli
(Italy)[1960] b. Marradi, l. Prato
MAI HOME, large photgrams on c-print paper, 2005 www.exibart.com
Hippolyte Bayard
(France)[1801–1887] b. Breteuil-sur-Noye, d. Nemours
"Dessins photographiques sur Papier. Recueil No. 2." [The "Bayard Album"], including cyanotypes and salted papers with contact prints of plants, tissues and feathers,1839-1867 www.getty.edu
Herbert Bayer
(USA)[1900–1985] born in Haag/A - Montecito, USA
Contact #31, b/w stencil photogram, 21,5 x 18 cm, 1935 www.jmcfaber.at
Franck Beaubois
(France)[1967] b. L'Haÿ-les-Roses/ Val de Marne, l. Bruxelles
radical shadowgraphic performances on b/w photopaper, 1992-96. E.g. for "7 jours en zone sensible" B. lived together with M. Vincent for one week in a dark room on photo paper. users.skynet.be
Henri Becquerel
(France)[1852–1908] b. Paris, d. Le Croisic
first autoradiogram: uranyl potassium sulfate fogging a photo plate, March 1896 www.abcte.org
autoradiogram experiment with beta-rays, 1901 www.ssplprints.com
autoradiograms published 1903 in the Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France www.academie-sciences.fr
Sergio Belinchón
(Spain)[1971] b. Valencia, l. Berlin
Shadows, 2004, short video of the shadows of walking people in the street www.sergiobelinchon.com
Bruno di Bello
(Italy)[1938] b. Torre del Greco (Napoli), l. Milano
Scritturar di Luce, drawing with light pen on photographic canvas, 1976 www.fondazionemarconi.org
Selfportrait with Dafne, partially developed (brush), blue toned b/w body shadowgraph, 1985 www.exibart.com
Paola di Bello
(Italy)[1961] b. Naples, l. Milan
Lucciole, firely luminograms on b/w paper, 1988-91 www.paoladibello.com
Fernando Bellver
(Spain)[1954] Madrid
x-ray body and animal photograms on lightbox, 2002 www.fernandobellver.com
David Berg
(USA)[1956] b. Berkeley, California
Negative Painting, 1998 and Double Negatives, 2000 www.carleton.edu
Walead Beshty
(UK)[1976] b. London, l. Los Angeles
"Two Sided Picture (YY)", colour luminogram made with folded c-print paper, 2006 www.fluentcollab.org
diary of 12.000 cyanotypes on a 90m long wall, 2014 www.theguardian.com
"Fold (60°/120°/180°/240°/300°/360° directional light sources)", folded paper, 2008 irshhorn.tumblr.com
untitled, folded cyanotype, 2009 www.outer-borough.com
"Picture Made by Hand with the Assistance of Light", crumbled b/w paper, 2011 eartstack.com
Jayne Hinds Bidaut
(USA)[1965] New York
Tadarida Brasiliensis, tintype shadowgraph of a Mexican Freetail Bat skelekton, 1999, 14 x 11" www.museumofnewmexico.org
Pat Binder
(Argentina)[1960] b. Buenos Aires, l. Berlin
objects with X-ray plates, 1984-1987 at-binder.de
Marietta Blau
(Austria)[1894–1970] b. Wien, d. Lainz
nuclear "star" caused by cosmic rays, pdf facsimile of "Sterne der Zertrümmerung", 1937, p.21. luslucis.univie.ac.at
"nuclear photograms" on nuclear emulsion plates discovered 1937 on the Hafelekar near Innsbruck (together with Hertha Wambacher) ysik.uibk.ac.at
Norbert Andreas Bleyer
(Germany)[1969] Freiburg i.Brsg./D
b/w body photograms and luminograms, 1982-2002 www.macrocosmic.de
Maria Blondeel
(Belgium)[1963] b. Halle, l. Ghent
Various works and installations based often on blueprint photograms (1987-2000). E.g. a slide installation with image-densities translated into sound waves. www.mariablondeel.org
Erika Blumenfeld
(USA)[1971] b. New Jersey, l. Santa Fe
Light Leaks Variation No. 13 [0 x infinity: meditation on evolution], from Light Graphs, luminograms made with a polaroid camera with a removed lens, 1999 www.channel.creative-capital.org
"Light leaks" & "Light rercordings", based on film and polaroid exposed to day- and moonlight, 1999-2005 www.erikablumenfeld.com
Monika von Boch
(Germany)[1915–1993] Mettlach
Knüppelbild & Moos/Sporenträger, b/w shadowgraphs, 1958 and later institut-aktuelle-kunst.de
Gweneth Boelens
(Netherlands)[1980] b. Soest, l. Amsterdam
Liars cloth, shadowgraph of textiles on c-print paper, 2015 listart.mit.edu
Christian Boltanski
(France)[1944] Paris
trailer about the work "Theatre d'Ombres", 1985/1990 www.youtube.com
collection of the artist's shadow installation as "Les Ombres" (1996) www.lightaffair.com
Lou Bonin (Tchimoukoff)
(France)[1878–1963] b. Avignon, d. Vichy
b/w photocalques used as patterns for wall paper printing (Brepols), 1928 www.jmcfaber.at
Juliana Borinski
(France)[1979] b. Rio de Janeiro/ BR, l. Paris
"Surfaces of Plateau", b/w shadowgraphs of wire structures, 2011, more recent shadowgraphs on colour paper julianaborinski.com
Stan Brakhage
(USA)[1933–2003] b. Kansas City, d. Victoria/ British Columbia
"Motlight", 1963, motion picture made by clich�e verre of butterflies and plants on clear 16 mm celluloid, 4 min www.fredcamper.com
Daniel Tobias Braun
(Germany)[1975] b. Pforzheim, l. Karlsruhe
"Sprung" and "Raketogramme": large photograms on colour negative paper by jumping in the water or burning rockets (2003/2006) www.daniel-tobias-braun.de
Théodore Brauner
(Romania)[1914–2000] b. Vienna, d. Paris
"Solarfixes", chemigrams on b/w paper, ca. 1950 www.ubugallery.com
Kilian Breier
(Germany)[1931–2011] b. Saarbrücken-Ensheim, d. Hamburg
Knicke, b/w luminogram, 1960-65 www.photography-now.com
raster photogram 1958/99 fotofluss.nikt.at
b/w photogram of torn strings, 1950's ms-collection.de
Josef Breitenbach
(Germany)[1896–1984] b. Munich, d. New York
Fireworks, b/w shadowgraph, 1949 curiator.com
Marco Breuer
(Germany)[1966] b. Landshut, l. New York
brûlages 1999/2000 www.cliffordsmithgallery.com
Untitled (Coal & Cloath), burned silver gelatin paper, 1996 radicalart.info
album "errata" with enlarger photograms of foam on ilfochrome and red safety light luminograms on polaroid, 2002 www.traywick.com
b/w photogram from A/Z SERIES: SPIT, NAILS, SHAVINGS, JACKS, BITES, WONDER BREAD, 1995-96 www.photoarts.com
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
(South Africa)[1970] b. Johannesburg, l. London
"the day", 'embedded' luminograms made with a roll of c-print paper in Summer 2008 in Afghanistan www.broombergchanarin.com
Christopher Bucklow
(UK)[1957] b. in Manchester/ l. in Frome
4 blue body shape works www.blindspot.com
"Guests", autoportraits series in his B.'s known technique www.chrisbucklow.com
Jerry Burchfield
(USA)[1947–2009] b. Chicago/IL, l. Laguna Beach, California
Primal Images, lowfixed plant photograms on undeveloped b/w paper, 2002 www.scapesite.com
Second Degree Still Life #7, ilfochrome photogram, 95.9 x 69.2 cm, 1981 (combined photogram and photography of the same objects) collections.eastman.org
ilfochrome shadowgraphs of human body, textiles, books etc., 1972-1997 web.archive.org
Untitled #907, from the "Pic a Shirt" series, ilfochrome, 1976 www.mocp.org