
Cibachrome photogram
Adam Fuss's *Cibachrome Photogram* is a luminous, large-scale work created by placing objects directly onto light-sensitive Cibachrome paper and exposing it to light, bypassing the use of a camera entirely. The resulting image glows with rich, jewel-like colors set against deep, velvety blacks, a signature characteristic of the Cibachrome process. Fuss transforms this traditional photographic technique into something almost mystical, revealing the ghostly traces and halos of form that emerge when light and chemistry collide.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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Under the Influence
September 19, 2013
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Man Ray
American · b. 1890

Man Ray pioneered the Rayograph, a cameraless photogram technique that places objects directly onto photosensitive paper, producing the same ghostly, luminous traces and abstract forms seen in Fuss's Cibachrome work. Both artists share a deeply experimental approach that transforms photographic process into something poetic and almost otherworldly.
Floris Neusüss
German · b. 1937
Neusüss devoted his entire practice to the photogram as an expressive fine art medium, creating large scale cameraless works that emphasize glowing light halos and ethereal silhouettes against deep black backgrounds, qualities that closely mirror the luminous and mystical character of Fuss's Cibachrome photograms. His conceptual rigor and focus on the trace of objects in light aligns him directly with Fuss's method.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian · b. 1895
Moholy-Nagy elevated the photogram into a major vehicle for abstract visual experimentation, using light and shadow falling on sensitized paper to create compositions that feel simultaneously scientific and transcendent, much like Fuss's jewel toned Cibachrome works. Both artists treat the absence of a camera not as a limitation but as a gateway to a more direct and elemental encounter with light itself.

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