Adam Magyar.Adam Magyar is a Hungarian photographer and video artist. He started take photos in his late twenties, capturing Asian cities and their street life, images such as Indian street vendors, wandering holy men and etc. Magyar's interest in digital photography evolved and he started looking for a way capture his love for street life and invented a new technology; slit-scanner technology. He did this by taking the scanner out of a printer and attaching lens and the rest of the equipment in his back pack. This led to him capturing extremely high resolution images and videos of people in the subway, the scan taking in video as the train moves along. In the videos the people are almost un moving, however, some people who are walking gain obscured legs. Overall it is oddly hauntingly peaceful, the details on a higher level but then disjointed and fragmented in areas.
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Experimentation.I felt inspired by Magyar's work so I decided to use images that I cut out of a magazine from a previous experiment and used a scanner and slowly moved each one to create a new, unique and distorted image. I really liked how this turned out and how different they all are. The distorted and slight tricolour from moving the images makes the image more augmented. I think this idea encompasses the idea of break & remake and I can use this to inspire for my final outcomes.
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