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Sensitive Materials that can be used to make photograms & other potentials

While most photograms are made with standard black and white photographic paper, the Photogram is a process that lends itself to experimenting and in terms of materials, the limiting factor is only one's imagination.

Polaroid materials:
While there is a wide range of Polaroid materials, and each might need a different treatment photograms can be made using these materials. Although not processes in the same manner as photographic paper some form of processing the film is required, either a film holder or a camera will work. Using a 120, 4x5 or 8x10 Polaroid film holder is an easy method as the objects are laid directly on the film which is positioned in the holder and the film is then processed through the rollers in the normal manner.

An old Polaroid camera can modified by removing the front lens section to allow the objects to be laid on the paper then using the roller system to process the film.

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