By piling, gluing, taping, or drawing over a photograph with imaginary components, Charles and Ray used images to convey an idea and to test how a physical change would look before employing a great deal of effort and resources. They were using a photograph as a model for decision making. Read more about this process in our latest #EamesArchives blog: eames.link/collaging

Eames Archives: An Image as an Idea is a blog series written by Eames Office Photography Archivist, Kelsey Williams, with the intention of sharing rarely-viewed images from the Eames Office archive and the untold narratives attached to them.