Re: Teaching and the Gurus

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From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: "The List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: Teaching and the Gurus

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> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, John Grocott wrote:
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> > Many, many years ago I worked in a college with a photography lecturer
> > who had, what some might regard as, a somewhat cynical attitude. With
> > tongue in cheek, he maintained that if you couldnt get anywhere with
> > doing something in the field of the creative arts i.e. selling your work
> > at a profit, then the next thing was to teach your subject to students.
>
> Nonsense, that's passe. As any art dealer (now called "gallerist," absurd
> title to start with, on top of which it sounds too much like "pederast")
> will tell you, If you can't sell your work at a profit, double the price !
>
> J.

Who says it's the list that never laughs? LOL.
~m
Received on Sun Apr 9 13:16:23 2006