sean vranizan: scanner art

one of the works of photographer sean vranizan’s scanner collage art utilizing glass pebbles, bullets, and found print materials, this piece was created in collaboration with photographer anthony mayesall images courtesy sean vranizan

sean vranizan, a san francisco-based recent photography graduate of UC santa cruz, creates collages utilizing a scanner in place of a camera. he collects a range of two and three-dimensional objects– ranging from bones and bullets to found photographs and magazine cutouts– and arranges them on a scanner bed, capturing the assemblage as a print.

not the first to adopt the technique, vranizan nonetheless achieves a dynamic and coherent look to his pieces, in some works experimenting with some of the technical quirks of scanners to create warped effects. in all of the collages, the scanner offers an interesting sense of depth and weight compared to what the pieces may have looked like where they simply photographed or glued together on canvas.

two scanner collages

as the assemblages are simply layered atop a scanner and not glued together, vranizan sometimes reuses components in different works, for example as with this hazardous waste sticker

created in collaboration with anthony mayes

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