the scannography blog

A scannography contest on a Gardening site. A bit late to present this but I wasn't aware of it earlier. Anyway, it's nice to see that scannography becomes used by everyone. This contest is a good example of that.

"Gardening Gone Wild" is a blog about gardens (did I figure that out by myself ?). They organize photo contests regularly. October theme was scannography.

The contest results are presented here, and you will see it's classical flower scanns but some very nice pictures amongst them.

Let's hope other scanography contests wil take place everywhere…

It seems scannography doesn't make it to bigger medias.
And if it does it is considered as strange photographic technic. I have this feeling that this is essentially due to what we are. I mean we mostly (the big part of us scannographers) are working at home, taking pictures of little things from our near environment. We don't take pictures from things that concern the others. So why should they be interested ? Photography is different, you show things to people that concerns them, so they look at a kind of mirror of themselves.
We only propose a look at what WE are.
In a certain way scannography is much more an artistic way of working then photography is…

So, if we want our works to be seen, we have, I think, to stick together, try to push things together… Give us your feelings about this, write some comments, share ideas… Long live scannography!

This month I had to illustrate some packagings for organic food.

As I wanted something realastic and simple, as I had just seeds to put on the label, I thought "let's do a scannography". Here under the result for two of them:

I asked around if some other people used scannography to illustrate commercial works. Ellen Hoverkamp sent me two images and the cover of the book where they were used :

Here are Ellen's explanations about that work :
"Mohegan Sun Casino is one of the largest casinos in America.  It is located on Native American land, owned by the Mohegan Indian Tribe, in Uncasville, CT.   The cookbook was a project that brought harmony and pride to both the Casino corporation and the Mohegan Tribe. Here are the endsheet design, planned to fold in the center of the double page spread. The first endsheets, is meant to fold on the fern. The composition is a tribute to the tribe, which is related to the Woodland Indians. The crabs and clams are included to relate to aquaculture, which has always been important since the tribe is also located near the shore on the CT, Rhode Island border. The last end sheet (file name cornlecto) was mostly a tribute to a traditional mainstay of the Mohegan diet, Succotash, which is made from squash, beans and corn, mostly. These three foods were also planted together as a traditional sustainable farming technique. I worked on this project July of 2004. The cookbook was published in 2005.''
The book can be found on storesonline.

The french "Blog Photo Scope" presents the "scannography.org" site


The superb french site has given us the opportunity to give information about scannography. This site talks about any interesting domain of photography and presents artists and galleries… The main site has a lot of entries getting in the photographic domains through different aspects. Even if you don't read french there are some superb galleries to visit and discover french artists… Vincent is working hard on this site and it deserves success.

…but is this still what we call scannography ?

Somewhere between medical imagery and artistic research, Rodolphe Gombergh proposed 2006 an exhibition called "transparent women" (festival @rt outsiders). Sophisticated technology allows him to show us the inside of human bodies without having to introduce camera in them. The radiologist uses medical scanners to obtain these images…



This is Art for sure, medical maybe but is it scannography ? What do you think ?

And to have an animated view of Rodolphe's Art go to this page. It can seem deranging, strange, weird but there is beauty here and also an other way to see ourselves !!!