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In this chapter I explain that scanners turn everyone with a computer into a potential art director, for scanners allow us to scan images we like and save them in various programs such as Picasa. We live in an image-centered society, which explains why 70% of the content on Facebook is images. I offer an example of how having a scanner with optical character recognition allowed me to publish a manuscript I wrote in 1973. I also discuss the use of my scanner in publishing images on postings on Facebook and other sites. Finally, I discuss the development of a new art form—scanner art, in which artists use their scanners to create pastiches, some of them elaborate and imaginative works of art.
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Berger, A.A. (2015). Flatbed Computer Scanners: Everyone’s an Art Director. In: Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative: How Digital Devices have Transformed American Character and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56545-7_11
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