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              October 18, 2012
              Kenn Tam

              A Camera That Photographs Time Instead of Space

              Artist Jay Mark Johnson has taken full advantage of slit scan photography, turning out some striking works of art that emphasizes time over space. These shots aren’t Photoshopped, movements are captured moment to moment while static subjects stretch out into lines where the width of an object corresponds not to distance or size, but the rate of movement.


               A Camera That Photographs Time Instead of Space
               A Camera That Photographs Time Instead of Space
               A Camera That Photographs Time Instead of Space
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               A Camera That Photographs Time Instead of Space
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              Artist Jay Mark Johnson produces photographic images that challenge the norms of perception. Throughout his career, in work spanning the disciplines of drawing and painting, filmmaking, performance, architecture, and photography, he has made visible the intersection of human nature and society.

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              • http://twitter.com/tobiassolem Tobias Solem

                Well, I have to say that I prefer realism to this.

              • http://twitter.com/MrJeeks Justin Alt

                I wish I were smart enough to comprehend what is happening here.  I read the description three times and still don’t get it.

              • http://tambnguyen.com/ Tam Nguyen Photography

                Am I the only who read the description like 5 times and still didn’t understand it?

              • RepublicWay

                To me it looks like a BROKEN CAMERA.. LOL

              • http://www.facebook.com/learmiller Lear Miller

                you can do almost this same effect. with your iphone…if you have the NEW panoramic feature in your iphone. but using it at such a slow rate your subject can keep up (if moving) or using it out your car window while driving.

              • http://www.facebook.com/thekingjulian Julian Jones

                Think of a package at UPS going down a line, and it passes under a camera. The camera scans in the label in a slit line, but since the package goes under the camera, the whole label gets scanned in over time. Each line section added together forms the final whole image. The conveyor belt below it does not get scanned in since it is not moving. 

                Adam Magyar is also another line scan artist

              • http://www.facebook.com/martin.melnick Martin Melnick

                I think it’s a great abstract use of digital photography. Some really focused work here. Sometimes realism or regional photography is difficult to display as art, but I feel like the abstract nature of these leaves a lot of simplicity and imagination to each piece.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500681302 E Mi Di

                A how to tutorial would be a nice addition to this post. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/glen.l.samuel Glen Leon Samuel

                would really love to see a tutorial on how to capture this on camera…there are many tutorials out there that show how to do this in photoshop but couldn’t find anything that showed how to capture this on a modern day dslr..

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Günter-Matthias-Wallmoden-Gimborn/100000994976326 Günter Matthias Wallmoden-Gimb

                I’m guessing he used the same device/principles as a photo-finish camera. look up how that works and you might understand this

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZFNDSQFYXL2TP3NP2AVEQV32U RUSS

                certainly is different from what we normally see. :-)

              • http://twitter.com/Jensthetraveler Jens Marklund

                Love it.

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Libby-Hsiao/100002173271338 Libby Hsiao

                Easiest way to understand how the image is formed is to think of it as stripping out a single line of pixels at the same location of each frame in a video. In fact, that is how I create streak images with any camera capable of video – just involves a bit of programming.

              • ram3000

                Slit Scan for beginners.

                I wanted to explain this with a video and youtube is your friend.
                Turns out theres a free iphone app for this:

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=csSDpzXwvRI#!
                developers page: http://funnerlabs.com/apps/slitscan

                not used them before.
                Hope this was useful !

              • Rick DeNatale

                Hmmmmm,

                I wonder if it might be possible to use Photoshop CS6 to simulate a fixed slit camera given video as input?

              • http://john-godwin.co.uk/ JPGodwin

                Don’t really know what I’m looking at, but I love it all the same. 

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