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Wednesday 5 December 2012
By Chris on Wednesday 5 December 2012, 08:30 - artists
…but the way she lays her compositions on the flatbed scanner is rather
original. In a way, she is telling us stories. She uses frames to show images
within the main frame.
Like in comics she plays with the juxtaposition between things to create
emotions. Blur, harsh colors, nice compositions do the rest. Take a look on her
page…
Wednesday 4 January 2012
By Chris on Wednesday 4 January 2012, 12:02 - informations
It's a superb object with a perfect layout and wonderful images.
Finally the book has passed frontiers. And it's worth having it in hand. Werner
did a great job trying to explain what scannography is and how to practice it.
Well the book is in german but it's worth having it in hand because it shows on
paper what we all knew: the quality of the images.
The publisher added a few artists (jeff Mihalyo, Patri Feher, Jaime Ruas,
Hercilia Lopes and more) at the end of the book to give a larger view and
opening to the world of Scan-Art. For those interested
you can order the book here. It's really worth the price. And it needs
support.
Tuesday 16 August 2011
By Chris on Tuesday 16 August 2011, 17:14 - artists
I had not much time in the last weeks but here we go again… I have to
present you 2 new artists : one for july and one for august. A great summer in
a way.
Werner Abel,
for july, is a german artist who is fascinated by the possibilities of the
flatbed scanner. He is presently publishing the first german book about
scannography at Nardelli publishing.
Luis Castelo, for august, is a spanish artist who teaches photography at the Fine Arts University in Madrid. His images are like nothing comparable, between scientific views and graphic design.
Please leave comments about these two interesting guys…
Werner Abel :
Luis Castelo
You can discover more of Luis's creations on his own site here
Sunday 2 January 2011
By Chris on Sunday 2 January 2011, 18:44 - general discussion
All the best to everyone taking a look on these pages
Monday 27 December 2010
By Chris on Monday 27 December 2010, 10:51 - artists
The artist for this month is finally on the site.
His name : Stewart Nelson. His work is mainly based on leaves and fronds and
bright colors. Stewart doesn't hesitate to alter the natural colors to arrive
at the result he wants. His images are strong, simple and appealing. Hs
compositions focus mostly on one main element and that gives strength to the
whole picture.
Stewart is a professional photographer living in Florida. And you can also take a look at his very graphic and interesting photographic works here.
Monday 1 November 2010
By Chris on Monday 1 November 2010, 10:44 - general discussion
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…
Thursday 16 September 2010
By Chris on Thursday 16 September 2010, 18:05 - artists
Our new artist on scannography.org,
Algis kemezys, is well-known photographer who creates scannographies since
years now.He explain his work :
"I called them PreRaphaelite because they follow the "rules" of those
mid-nineteenth century poets and painters. They have unconventional
compositions (unlike any flower arrangements I have ever seen in photos or
paintings); there are pyramidal groupings (stacking); there is of necessity
more light on one side of the image than the other, causing an unnatural
depiction of the subjects; and there is absolutely a great emphasis on shadow
and tone to let the colours fend for themselves and work within the structure
of the image."
His images are colored in a very special way, like no other. The strange emanations coming out and slipping through the images, give a sense of weirdness and a strength to Algis's creations. If you want to know more about this artist, he gives a lot of informations on his own blog.
Monday 12 April 2010
By Chris on Monday 12 April 2010, 09:14 - artists
Finally some new things on our site !! I'm sorry I had no time before but I had hundreds of illustrations to create in the last 5 months.
So. Here we are presenting you a formidable photographer who is now working in scannography. The works Chad Kleitsch presents us here are divided in two parts. The first is the classical scannography theme : flowers and leaves, simply presented but in a perfect way. The second theme is much more personal, in my humble opinion. Chad works with papers, scanning letters, enveloppes, receipts but with an incredible lightning which gives almost live to those papers. Chad seems to have thought a lot about his way of doing things and the result is very sensitive and emotional. Here is an extract of his statement, which I find very relevant : "For some primordial reason when a new image making process or technique is created we innocently throw nature onto its surface, as some kind of ongoing test. Perhaps looking to see if it can match our own perceptual abilities and/or move beyond it."
“Letter from Camp” 
Flower 
nonsense receipt
I hope you like that new artist and you can also take a look at his own website here.
Thursday 18 December 2008
By Chris on Thursday 18 December 2008, 06:39 - artists
Marty Klein presents some of his works on our main site.
Marty is, in a way, a newcomer to scannography. But he is a longtime lover of
Nature. Photographer of wildlife and flowers since always, he passed to
scannography in 2006, discovering the richness of details and subtilities of
this technic. He now shares the result with all of us. Playing with textures,
matters and sharpness to bring us to view the details of what surrounds
us.
Go also see Marty's main site, rich
of images of all styles
Sunday 14 September 2008
By Chris on Sunday 14 September 2008, 15:26 - artists
Janet Dwyer has won some important prices (In 2007 the world’s most
prestigious photography competition, the Pilsner Urquell International
Photography Awards). Her attention to details and moods gives strenght to her
images as well as a kind of poetry not missing some humor ! She doesnt hesitate
to add other elements to the flowers and compose them so our imagination can
play and see much more then the flowers she has scanned…
Take a look at the main site as well as
on her own site.
flying dream
tango
Friday 22 August 2008
By Chris on Friday 22 August 2008, 20:46 - artists
Is floral the main theme amongst scannographers ?
It won't be Tim Fleming who
would say the opposite. Tim's beautiful arrangements can now be seen on the
scannography main site.
April in Paris
Fading Rose
Tim is an artist, teacher, web designer and photographer specializing in images of the American West, as well as a scannographer. His work is well known in and around the Northern California area, and he has exhibited his artwork both nationally and internationally. You can see his work on his personal website.