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What is Scanner Art (Scanography)?

Samantha Peel

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This blog will be divided into two areas:

  1. The meaning of Scanner Art (Scanography)

  2. Scanner Art (Scanography) process

  1. The meaning of Scanner Art (Scanography)

I have mentioned both scanner Art & Scanography, and these mean:

  1. Scanography is a technique that uses a flatbread scanner to create photography.

  2. Scanner Art Is referred to as scanner photography, as this is a process of capturing digitized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art by using a flatbed "photo" scanner

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Scanner Artist - Abel Werner

Scanography photographer - Stewart Nelson

Historically this process was called - Xerox art.

The process of creating art with a scanner can be as simple as arranging objects on the scanner and capturing the resulting image; in fact, some early artists in the field worked with photocopiers to capture and print in a single step, resulting in the field of Xerox art.

Pati Hill: Photocopier, A Survey of Prints and Books (1974–83)

2. Scanner Art (Scanography) process

This is a fun and simple process to play with

Scanography: Cameraless Pictures With Your Scanner

  1. Set Up Your Scanner. Open the scanner's properties (usually in devices and printers)

  2. Set Up Your Image. If you want a different background to your picture than the plain scanner one, you can stick your own on with Blu Tack.

  3. Get Arty. Play around with different objects, materials, water, or paint & try moving as the scanner moves. You can also play with your own face, head, arms, or hands.

I have played around with this blog to show some simple things that you can try at home.

Example - used common objects and a blue background

Example of common objects and a material background

The next examples are combined images, where I have layered multiple images together to form a single image.

Single set of objects podsitioned to the left bottom corner

Repeated images to form a pattern

These images are combined in Photoshop to form each of these images below

Here are some examples of when I moved the items while the scanner moved.

I do hope that this technique is something you may wish to use for your own creative processes. The next blog will be all about this technique - Brenizer Method Photography.

Take a watch this ‘YouTube’ Video on this subject

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