{"id":2803,"date":"2010-01-02T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/2010\/01\/02\/mind-bending-digital-photo-manipulation-by-erik-johansson\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T21:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:54:47","slug":"mind-bending-digital-photo-manipulation-by-erik-johansson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/02\/mind-bending-digital-photo-manipulation-by-erik-johansson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Bending Digital Photo Manipulation by Erik Johansson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/erik-johansson-main.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"316\" alt=\"erik-johansson-main\" \/>In the Age of Photoshop, few images are surprising anymore \u2013 but every now and then, you come across one that makes you do a double take and spend a few moments thinking, \u201chow\u2019d they do that?\u201d Swedish photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltelleringet.com\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Erik Johansson<\/a> has a portfolio packed full of such images, blending reality and artificiality together so seamlessly, one <a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wonders\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">wonders<\/a> whether he\u2019s an artist or a magician.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17579\" title=\"erik-johansson-2\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/erik-johansson-2.jpg\" alt=\"erik-johansson-2\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johansson seems to live in a surreal world where roads unfurl like fabric, giant mirrored objects dangle from the sky, humans spring forth from the soil like potted <a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/plants\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">plants<\/a> and disturbingly elastic faces pop out of joint to swallow oranges whole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17580\" title=\"erik-johansson-4\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/erik-johansson-4.jpg\" alt=\"erik-johansson-4\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish artist takes all of his photos himself and manipulates them digitally in Photoshop CS4, spending 10-20 hours on each photo. \u201cI got my first digital camera when I turned 15, I did some changes to the photos and thought it was fun. But I really started in 2007 when I bought my first SLR camera. That is when I started to do some serious photo manipulations,\u201d Johansson told <a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/interview-photo-manipulation-master-erik-johansson\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Abduzeedo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17581\" title=\"erik-johansson-3\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/erik-johansson-3.jpg\" alt=\"erik-johansson-3\" width=\"440\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontpaniconline.com\/magazine\/myth\/erik-johansson\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Don\u2019t Panic<\/a>, Johansson said, \u201cMy goal is to make pictures as realistic as possible, but at the same time impossible. Many photographers try to look weird, so I try to make my shots as plausible as possible. I would say I try to use humour a lot and I rarely have a didactic message. Sometimes I want to tell something, but mostly I want people to interpret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17582\" title=\"erik-johansson-5\" src=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/erik-johansson-5.jpg\" alt=\"erik-johansson-5\" width=\"440\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of young people think they\u2019re fascinating but the older generation don\u2019t really believe in Photoshop. They think photos should be a pure image. Myself, I\u2019m never satisfied with them but I think that\u2019s a healthy instinct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weburbanist.com\">weburbanist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Age of Photoshop, few images are surprising anymore \u2013 but every now and then, you come across one that makes you do a double take and spend a few moments thinking, \u201chow\u2019d they do that?\u201d Swedish photographer Erik Johansson has a portfolio packed full of such images, blending reality and artificiality together so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-weburbanist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}