This document discusses experimental photography techniques used by three artists: 1) Maureen Gubia combines photography with paint, such as in her portrait of Panda Bear which gives texture and surrealism to the simple photograph. 2) Rob Sheridan creates "glitch art" by manipulating analog signals and tape to distort and break up images, such as in his skull photograph with wavy and colored distortions. 3) Olga Guerra uses "scannography" which replaces the camera with a scanner to photograph objects from a new perspective, as seen in her work which explores meaning beyond just showing the objects.

1. Experimental Photography!
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Maureen Gubia-!
Maureen Gudia is a freelance artist from Ecuador. Though she works a
lot in water colours and oil paints, she often combines it with
photography. Her experimental photography pieces often have a lot of
texture to them. One of my favourite pieces of hers is this one, a portrait
of Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear). The photograph itself is quite simple,
but the use of paint over the top of the image gives it life.!
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I think this particular piece of work is contemporary, By the looks of the
photograph she has used modern technology. The image quality is very
good, and it appears to be true to colour which is why i think this
photograph was taken with a modern camera. Historically people have
often used paints to create images, though I don’t think that paints have
been used in this way until recently. This is why I think this work is fairly
non-traditional. Rather than the paint being used to create a realistic
portrayal of something, it is being used to make the image more surreal.
Maureen Gubia often creates fine art, though in this case I think that
piece is commercial. This is because this piece of work was created for
some of Panda Bears music artwork. !
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Rob Sheridan- !
Rob Sheridan is an American graphic designer, director, and
also photographer. He is best known for his work with the band
Nine Inch Nails as their art director. He often creates glitch art,
a form of art that is created by destroying the images code, to
make it appear broken and distorted. There are many different
methods to creating glitch art, though the method that Rob
used is called analog glitch art. He does this by disrupting
signals through analog tape and display equipment. An
example of his work is this one of a skull. As you can see the
original image has been broken up and now has this wavy
effect. The colours have also been distorted, as they should be
a sort of off white colour, where as now the image has blue
and green colours. !
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Robs work is definitely contemporary and non-traditional. He
has used technology that they would not have had in the past. The technique is a completely new
concept that hasn't been attempted until recent years. In the past we have had artists such as
Picasso create distorted images of people, with their facial features all jumbled up and the colours
very bright and not realistic at all, however using technology to do this is a new thing. Much of
Rob’s work is commercial, creating artwork for bands such as Nine Inch Nails. However I think that
this particular piece might be fine art. I don’t think this piece of work was used for particular thing,
just to share an emotion or point of view with its audience. !
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2. Olga Guerra-!
This final image was created by Olga Guerra using a technique called
scannography. For this technique you replace the camera for a
scanner. This technique is very unique as you can take images of
things from a different perspective. It’s only downside is that you
cannot take the scanner around to different locations, and have to
bring what you want to photograph to the scanner. !
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Olga’s scannography work is also contemporary and non-traditional.
Using scanners to take photographs of objects or people rather than
just for office work I think is a fairly new concept. Scanners are
technology that have only been around for a number of years. I think
that this technique could be used for some commercial work,
depending on the subject matter, though I think that this particular
piece of work by Olga is fine art. The objects she has chosen for her
work are interesting, and show potential for deeper meaning rather
than just showing off the objects themselves. This tends to be what
fine art is for, allowing the audience to look for deeper meaning to a
piece rather than just looking as surface appearances.