The photogram, as described by the American Heritage Dictionary, was best known as a post World War 1 movement in Europe. In 1917, a German named Christian Schad experimented with the technique and called his works Schadographs. In 1921 Man Ray, an American painter living in Paris, saw some of Schad’s work and started some of his own experiments which he called Rayographs. The following year the Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in turn saw a portfolio of 12 Rayographs and produced his own experiments which he called Photograms. Popular for a few years this movement had, by the 1930’s, passed into photographic history. Ann Parkers Botanical Metamorphics explores this technique in an unique and magical way.

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