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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to cameraless photographs
2Early examples of cameraless photography
Early photographers recording nature
3Anna Atkins: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype impressions (1843-1854)
4Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (ca. 1854)
5Anna K. Weaver
Photograms and their types
6Terminology for cameraless photographs
7Experimental photographers and cameraless photographs
8Photograms
Experimental photographers
9Man Ray: Rayograms
10Man Ray: Électricité’ (1931)
11Arthur Siegel: Photograms
12Claude Tolmer: Photograms
13Elfriede Stegemeyer: Photograms
14Hilde Horn: Photograms
15László Moholy-Nagy: Photograms
16Christian Schad: Schadographs
17Werner Schnelle: Light Works
Capturing the environment
18Harry Nankin: Contact 2003-2004
19Harry Nankin: Rain

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