Keywords: Mannequin (Lissitzky, 1928).jpg en The doll-is he a photographer peers through a magnifying glass at the negative of an image of Paris taken by Lissitzky in 1928 The artist ™s interest in the photogram and negative images may relate to his experience being x-rayed for tuberculosis in 1924 Later that decade Lissitzky experimented extensively with positive and negative versions of photograms A photogram provides a negative image �of the objects placed on the sensitized paper Using the photogram as a negative reverses that reversal to create a positive print Printing a mix of positive and �negative images on the same sheet of paper allowed Lissitzky to add a sense of three-dimensionality to the silhouettes yielded by the photogram process 1928 http //www clevelandart org/art/2007 147 f0 field_artist 3AEl 20Lissitzky 20 28Russian 2C 201890-1941 29 Creator El Lissitzky PD-Old other versions Photographs by El Lissitzky 1928 photographs Russian art in the Cleveland Museum of Art |