All the best to all artists on the site and to all the visitors
passing here.
For info: the image is composed of 2 scanns, one of plastic protective film and one of a dried pepper fruit
general discussion
Monday 4 January 2010
A happy new scannographic year !!!
By Chris on Monday 4 January 2010, 14:20
Sunday 20 September 2009
Why can't we be more recognized ?
By Chris on Sunday 20 September 2009, 13:48
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!
Saturday 14 March 2009
A discussion forum for us, scannographers
By Chris on Saturday 14 March 2009, 12:24
A forum where we can share
ideas in a simple way… Wasn't that what we all were waiting for? This is due to
Pierre
Jarlan, he did the big work, and made this possible. I wouldn't even
thought that was realisable for me. Pierre isn't only a unique person and
scannographer, he is also a good user and creator of websites, and above all an
excellent photographer. So I advice you all to take a look at his own website, it's full of nformations and
superb pictures. So he did the forum for us all, thank him for that.
I hope you will all try the forum out. All your ideas you sent to me, please rewrite them on the forum, so everyone can react and read and share, and answer. All the news you can bring for the exhibition will be welcomed here…
Thursday 4 December 2008
commercial works…
By Chris on Thursday 4 December 2008, 22:56
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.
Saturday 29 November 2008
A common exibition ?
By Chris on Saturday 29 November 2008, 12:27
Pierre Jarlan, one of our
artists on scannography.org
proposes a very nice idea for all of us…
We could find a place where we could do a common exhibition of scannography.
Pierre thinks of Paris, but if someone knows a better place or has already
contacts somewhere, or knows a gallery… it's a new idea we could all think of
because we could all gain of it.
Pierre also thought about having a common theme for this exhibition, like
"everyone empties his pockets and scanns what he (or she) founds in
them".
I like this idea a lot because as we are from everywhere on the planet, this
coud reveal very interesting differences !!
I hope this idea will make you react and I hope to read some comments and messages. Let me know if you are interested. So we could start an working on such a project.
Saturday 6 September 2008
Le "Blog Photo Scope"
By Chris on Saturday 6 September 2008, 08:32
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.
Saturday 30 August 2008
Wikipedia - finally a good result
By Chris on Saturday 30 August 2008, 09:27
Thanks to Scot Alexander, the scannography page on Wikipedia looks
great now !
Finally we arrive on a consistent page. This is an encyclopedical article,
well structured, with references, and keeping a minimum external links. Scot
Alexander rewrote the whole article based on Patri's first researches and
thanks to her help in searching bibliographical sources. Scot
Alexander added a lot of elements and enriched the whole.
The only thing missing now, in my opinion, are some good examples of
images.
To add such images, they have to be added in Wikipedia's Creative
Commons. That means that you allow anybody to use this image you uploaded
there, without having to pay any rights to you. You remain the author but allow
the image to be reused in any possible manner. So if some amongst you are ready
to do so, I think that would help improve the article. Scot added one of my
images I gave out there. I'm now working on a french translation of Scot's
article…
Wednesday 30 July 2008
Rodolphe Gombergh : medical scannography can lead to Art…
By Chris on Wednesday 30 July 2008, 21:08
…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 !!!
Monday 14 July 2008
Scannography on Wikipedia
By Chris on Monday 14 July 2008, 08:44
We got problems on Wikipedia.
Patri composed a simple but objective and complete definition of
"scannography". She added a list of links to give examples of what could be
done with this media.
It looked like this then :
After that somebody interfered. He is signing "Freshacconci" . He deleted all
the links and signaled the page as being not neutral, containing unverifiable
claims, etc.
It then looked like this :
I finally reintroduced some links to have this :
The problem now remains that we have this signalization above that indicates this page has almost no credibility. So if someone knows how to change this, please let us know. I tried to contact Mr. Freshacconci but he doesn't answer. He just took the time to bring up problems and now he leaves us with them. I personnally find this really incorrect but what can we do ?