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Scanography: Photographic Art Between the Realms of Sight and Touch




AuthorsVuorinen, Jane

Publication year2024

JournalJournal of Aesthetics and Culture

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2024.2427404

Web address https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2024.2427404

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/470862622


Abstract

Scanographs are photographs made using a scanner, and they have become increasingly present in contemporary photographic art in the expanded field. In this article, I examine the artistic processes of three artists working with scanners and analyze their works through their relationships with the senses of sight and touch. These works open up spaces for a haptic gaze, where the tactile qualities of the working processes of the artists are mediated through the images. I use theoretical sources centering on sight and touch, presence and absence, analogue and digital to suggest ways of considering these qualities not as opposing characteristics but rather as simultaneous polarities.


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