About Scanner Photography
Scanner photographer, Marsha Tudor, challenges conventional views of photography and digital capture. Using an Epson V750 scanner, she creates images of such sculptural dimensionality that they belie the flat surface on which they are created. Defined by extreme limitations, scanner photography uses the dichotomy of a virtually flat depth of field yet remarkably high resolution to produce images with a very distinctive appearance. A moving light source and an extended exposure time, often supported by dramatically dark backgrounds combine to produce images characterized by enigma as though picked from an “other worldly” garden.
The Studio
A second generation Southern Californian, Marsha lives with her family in Claremont where she is inspired by a rich local plant palette. With a background in fine arts, earning a BA from CSU East Bay, concentration in drawing in 1978, Marsha has, in the last few years, migrated to exclusively digital media. Even in earlier work, Marsha’s interests were for natural subject matter and a somewhat representational style. Aesthetic concerns have always been about beauty and enigma. A bit of mystery hovers as images often have an atmospheric quality receding into shadows.