First gallery ' experience'

 
 
In a message dated 08/02/2006 19:28:51 GMT Standard Time,
kate_mocak@zoznam.sk writes:

Hi all,

I'd like to thank you all very much for your support and encouragement. Your
responses made me feel much better, even though it is sad and very
frustrating to hear that many of you have gone through the same unpleasant
encounters with photography 'experts'.

There's a lot of interesting reading in your mails and I'd like to reply to
you offline in the next few days.

Best wishes,
Kate

Kate
 
The difficulty is that, with very rare exceptions, gallery owners are not
photography experts. Like any retailer they make their money by selling and it
is fashion that sells whether the commodity is shoes or pictures. Even when
gallery staff gather round a portfolio enthusing over its exquisite qualities,
it is not in their financial interest to hang the pictures on the gallery
walls unless fashion will ensure a sale.
 
Who decides fashion. In women's wear it is the manufacturers; if you want
advance warning of next year's fashion, don't read Vogue read the Financial
Times. In the art world, it is a select group of curators, critics and similar
people who call the shots. Pictorialism may be on the first steps on its way
back into fashion, but the gallery owners have not been told yet.
 
Terry
 

 
Terry King FRPS

RPS Historical Group (Chairman)

_www.hands-on-pictures.com/_ (http://www.hands-on-pictures.com/)

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Received on Wed Feb 8 14:05:55 2006