(Img. 1 - Mug i scanned in the studio.)The use of the flat bed of the scanner takes me back to thinking about Man Ray in first year. His photograms (or Rayographs, Img. 2) work by projecting light onto photographic paper, with an object on top of. So the shadows the object projects onto the paper are not exposed.
(Img. 2 - Rayograph)So with Photograms being a projection of the object. I suppose what a scanner does is that the reflective image. Light is being shone onto the object and the reflective light transmitted to the computer. I played around with the flat bed for a while without realising that it was a fairly similar technique. you can only really take photos of objects that are either touching or very slight distance away. (img. 3)
(Img. 3 - this experiment was learning how far an object could be placed from a scanner without loosing the image completely.
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