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Professor Turned Digital Photographer

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Apr 20th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends

Cnet informs us: ” Looking at 10 different photos of Niagara Falls, it might be hard to tell the difference between amateur snapshots and professional postcards. But to Elliot Anderson, there’s art in the common man’s photography of the American landscape. Anderson, a software engineer turned new-media artist, has taken tourist photos uploaded to the Web and turned them into works of digital art.

“I wanted to show how woven we are in the world,” said Anderson, an assistant professor of art and electronic media art in the University of California Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts New Media graduate program. “

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