rayograph

English

Etymology

From Ray +‎ -o- +‎ -graph, coined by Man Ray (1890–1976), American modernist artist, based on his own name.

Noun

rayograph (plural rayographs)

1. A photogram of the kind produced by Man Ray.
   • 2000, Lynn Gamwell, Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind:

     Man Ray developed a similar procedure for photography — montage and suggested the working of the unconscious mind by dropping objects randomly onto a light-sensitive surface in his rayograph process.

   • 2004, Barbara Beth Zabel, Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde:

     The artist constructed this rayograph by placing disparate objects — a notched collar and a strip of folded paper — on photographic paper.