In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Because the painted, collaged, and otherwise reworked black-and-white photograms by this little-known French photographer (1925-1962) recall both Fox Talbot’s early experimentation and Man Ray’s ...

The László Moholy-Nagy Collection in the National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection is comprised of seven photograms, two photomontages, and one gelatin silver print.

THIS annual deals chiefly with descriptions and criticisms of the “pictorial” photographs exhibited in the various exhibitions, and brief summaries of the state of pictorial photography in other ...