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Tuesday 20 March 2012
By Chris on Tuesday 20 March 2012, 08:01 - artists
It's been a while since my last post. I'm sorry about this.
Our new artist on the site is an english photographer called Clare West. Her
images can seem very classic but in the same time there is a very special
flavour in them. A kind of nostalgia, something we find in the early
photographies of the 19th century. Textures, colors, mood, everything seems to
be diluted by the time machine !
I'm glad to count her amongst us !
Enjoy and leave some comments please…
Tuesday 31 May 2011
By Chris on Tuesday 31 May 2011, 19:24 - artists
For this month I want to present you Lucy Peltier. She is playing with very simple yet attractive compositions with marbles and leaves. I hope you like the quality of her images and the abstract movements she introduces…
Thursday 17 March 2011
By Chris on Thursday 17 March 2011, 13:31 - artists
… a weird combination made great by Debb
VanDelinder.
Beautifull scanns to discover on our site. Debb is mixing fragile elements into
powerfull and appealing images. Debb plays with the feelings she provokes and
with the magic of interference between opposites symbols. The end and beginning
of life mixed in a strange vision… And she sure knows how to play with light
and colors with a scanner…
So please take a look at the complete page on the site and don't forget to visit her own website
Wednesday 16 March 2011
By Chris on Wednesday 16 March 2011, 15:55 - artists
But not too heavily, otherwise she would crash all the deicate
things she scanns !!
Janet is a long time member of our site. She sent me beautiful images that I
recently added to her page. I've not much more to say that : go and take a look,
it's worth the few minutes. Thank you Janet for your fidelity.
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…
Saturday 23 October 2010
By Chris on Saturday 23 October 2010, 12:12 - artists
"When the market traders had left, there were discarded flowers left on the
road squashed into the ground, but still beautiful. I wanted to capture this
beauty and scanning was the best way to create such movement and action with a
still object."
This is how Richard Dawson
started scannography. This photographer and artist has since developped lots of
styles by using his scanner. I let you discover them on the site. Here a few
images to give you a first approach :
Don't hesitate to go this own website where you can discover a large range of styles and works
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.
Friday 24 April 2009
By Chris on Friday 24 April 2009, 16:33 - artists
Yes I know, flowers, flowers, when it comes to scannography it
always comes to flowers.
But Roberta Bailey (she has her own
website here), brings the subject to a new level. At least to my eyes. She
plays with colors, transparencies, and lights without crashing the simplicity
of the elements she presents. Her creations are just perfect. The essence of
her body of work seems to be beauty, something that gets more and more lost in
Contemporary Art. That's maybe why we are not looked at as artists, but as some
bunch of amateurs playing with scanners !!!
Go and see
these images (on scannography.org) , I think you'll be amazed too
(especially if you like flowers as much as Modern Art, which I personnaly do,
being open minded is important these times).
I hope she will touch a large public and so help scannography get it's way
forward.
Monday 29 September 2008
By Chris on Monday 29 September 2008, 08:32 - artists
The second artist of september is named Al Gabor, a development
research analyst.
His passion for gardening and photography has lead him to scannography. This
seems to be a very common way amongst us, scannographers ! Al Gabor plays with
colors and forms but also with humor and sensuality !
A classic scannographer but his images are beautiful and a pleasure for the
eyes ! You can discover more of these on his
own site.
Gladiolas
Veggie portrait