Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Just a thought - at all shows I've seen a title for each photo, a theme
> for the collection of photos and an artist's statement is required.
> There must be some reason for this other than to give the photographer a
> hard time {:-> (Or, maybe it is just to give the photographer a hard
> time.)
>
> Each viewer is most likely going to read something different into each
> photograph. A title and "theme," or in our case, a little information
> about the photographs in PF's gallery, gives the viewer a frame of
> reference or somewhere to start.
The artists I know all regard it as primarily for the purpose of
giving the artist a hard time.
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