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Photogram

Guilherme Bergamini

Technique Photogram

Fotograma is a technique of image production without the use of camera obscura and having as a medium the light for the formation of the image. Simply place an object on photosensitive media and expose to light. After the chemical processing has a negative image of the contour of the objects used. A pioneer in photographic development, William Henry Fox Talbot produced frames before even the "invention" of this technique.

Anna Atkins, the British botanist, was the first person to realize the potential of photography in scientific works, using the cyanotype process for the production of her frames, producing the first picture book in history with photographic images in 1843, "Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions ".

This series can also be found at http://guilhermebergamini.com/fotograma/ .

Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 40 countries.

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