Scanography (5-2)

Scanography is a quick process with instant gratification.  This is something I could see students having a lot of fun with, and it's a good next step after digital photography.  Students will already understand with digital photography that they can take images and manipulate them after the fact to create distortions or collages.  Scanography will get students thinking about how to make the collage or the distortion part of the original image.  I would like to have students begin by experimenting with the scanner so they understand what it is capable of creating.  My next lessons would have them creating a series of thoughtful collages that they would plan and sketch out first.  I would have a discussion about composition and materials, have them collect items to bring to class, then spend some time working with different arrangements before creating the final scan.  As a final project, I would like them to either create a scanographic collage image that embraces distortion in some way, or create a scanography inspired digital photograph.