Editing Photogram (section)

===Nineteenth century===
{{Expand section|The 19th century was when photographic processes (with cameras) became more widely accessible/standardized items began to be produced to create photographs (and presumably photograms.)|date=February 2023}}

The first photographic [[Negative (photography)|negatives]] made were photograms (though the first permanent photograph was made with a camera by [[Nicéphore Niépce]]). [[William Henry Fox Talbot]] called these ''photogenic drawings'', which he made by placing leaves or pieces of lace onto sensitized paper, then left them outdoors on a sunny day to expose. This produced a dark background with a white silhouette of the placed object.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html |title=The Pencil of Nature |first=William Henry Fox |last=Talbot |year=1844 |location=London |publisher=Special Collections Department, Library, University of Glasgow |access-date=21 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611071313/https://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/Feb2007.html |archive-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1843, Anna Atkins produced a book titled ''British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions'' in installments; the first to be illustrated with photographs. The images were all photograms of botanical specimens, mostly seaweeds, which she made using [[Sir John Herschel]]'s [[cyanotype]] process, which yields blue images.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Schaaf, Larry J. | author2=Atkins, Anna |editor=Chuang, Joshua | title=Sun gardens : cyanotypes by Anna Atkins |date=2018 | publisher=The New York Public Library | isbn=978-3-7913-5798-0 }}</ref>

[[File:-Photogram; Laboratory Equipment- MET DP106486.jpg|thumb|upright|Gelatin silver print photogram by [[Jaromír Funke]] (1926; modernism)]]