The Len Lye Foundation was entrusted by the artist with promoting the Len Lye's work and ideas, keeping his kinetic sculpture in working order. Building work he had planned but not been able to realize during his lifetime.

The Govett-Brewster holds the collection of work by Len Lye, on behalf of the Len Lye Foundation. The collection includes Lye's pioneering kinetic sculptures, photograms and experimental films, and a substantial archive.

2016年4月29日 · Self-Planting at Night (or Night Tree) and Marks and Spencer in A Japanese Garden are Lye’s most well-known photograms, each an entry by Lye into the surrealist cannon.

Lye's self portrait photogram (1947) incorporates his 1930 photogram 'Self Planting at Night'.

With an introduction by Len Lye Curator and publication editor Paul Brobbel, Shadowgraphs republishes Wystan Curnow’s 2009 essay ‘Len Lye’s Portrait Photograms’ alongside more than 55 photographs capturing Lye’s unique photographic practice.

New Zealand multidisciplinary artist Len Lye combined the twin influences of the photogram and abstract painting with an ebullient sense of rhythm and “bodily empathy” to radically reshape the cinematic medium.

He exhibited paintings, batiks, photographs and sculpture as part of the Seven and Five Society, Britain’s leading avant-garde group. During a visit to Mallorca with his friends Robert Graves and Laura Riding, Lye made a number of photograms with plasticine and cellophane shapes arranged over the photographic paper.

There are hundreds of photographs and slides in the collection. Notable is a striking series of photogram portraits Lye created in 1947 (photos made directly onto photographic paper without the use of a camera). The subjects are friends and colleagues such as W H Auden, Joan Miró, Hans Richter, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Le Corbusier.

Filmmaker and sculptor Len Lye made about forty-eight cameraless photographic portraits of friends and acquaintances.

2019年6月25日 · The New Zealander Len Lye, known for his abstract films and kinetic sculptures, made a number of photograms in the 1930s and 1940s, when he was living in London.