Image DAY 278 PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES

Scanner as Camera

BEYOND PRACTICALITY

Ever since the first brave pioneer dared to photograph his own hindquarters using the office copy machine, creative types have chafed against the constraining definitions of “acceptable” artistic expression.

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Many would view the conventional desktop scanner as a utilitarian office tool before considering it for creative purposes. As scanner technology has developed, however, the boundary between the definitions of scanner and camera has grown increasingly blurred. In ...

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