| Pretty Pictures
There is a new blog in town — Spitting Image. It's put together by James Luckett of consumptive.org
to take up some of the slack and focus things a little, i've started a new blog in collaboration with my co-conspirator Mr. Cieciel - Spitting Image: all images all the time - the latest news, thoughts, anecdotes, and imagery of note - plus copious links to archives of vernacular, scientific and artistic interest. hope you like it.
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Which segues to my comments about Katinka Matson's Flowers. I felt that much ado had been made about nothing. Her images are very pretty but the use of the technology, which was made out to be right up there with the second coming of Christ, was nothing new. James and I exchanged some e-mails on this matter and James mentioned it in his entry Scantastic.
I saw a wonderful show at George Eastman House in 1979. (George is the guy who started a little photography company he called Kodak.) They had a show called Electroworks, which was all electro copier art. Artists placing things on the glass and copying them — just like Katinka. Here are some images from the catalog. Two from Connie Fox...
 
One by Joan Lyons...
It was an exciting show. A good part of the excitement was the lack of pre-concieved notions the artists brought to this new form of photography. They were, in the early days, working alone unaware that others were using this new camera too. They played with some of its new capabilites not trying to copy forms used with the traditional lensed camera. In other words — they had fun.
Scanner photographers should have fun too!
playing with the temporal aspects of a scanner — no. 1
1,000 pixel high version — 144kb
2,000 pixel high version — 393kb
By the way, I like James' definition of photography:
Photography is an image made with light reflected off of the subject - how you go about obtaining that light doesn't change what it is. |
