Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi
Photogram, 1951
Recto Henderson photogram and verso Paolozzi design for wallpaper
76 x 52 cms
29 7/8 x 20 1/2 ins
29 7/8 x 20 1/2 ins
14807
£ 18,000.00 + ARR
Further images
Nigel Henderson's photograms, or 'Hendograms' as he called them, were created using an enlarger bought for him in 1949 by his friend Eduardo Paolozzi. Henderson experimented with this 'crude drawing...
Nigel Henderson's photograms, or "Hendograms" as he called them, were created using an enlarger bought for him in 1949 by his friend Eduardo Paolozzi. Henderson experimented with this "crude drawing instrument", as he put it, exposing found objects and debris to light on photo-sensitive paper. He described it as a "method of drawing of all kinds of marks and energies of line and shape and texture".
Literature
Nigel Henderson & Eduardo PaolozziHammer Prints Ltd, 1954 -75
P.10 Chronology
1949
Henderson is given a photographic enlarger by Paolozzi and begins to produce photograms. Paolozzi returns to London and briefly stays with the Hendersons in Bethnal Green, where he and Henderson collaborate on a series of experimental photographic works.