Roy, Making a living doing art fairs is tough. The standards for craft and merchandising have gotten quite high. The artfulness of it is a matter of taste. People seem to do it for the life-style and associations with other artists and customers. You have to get in line to talk to the artists about their work and they probably miss a lot of sales just yakking :-) The prize money for the local show this year was a record -$7000. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: I thought this was interesting > From: PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx > Date: Mon, May 23, 2005 12:17 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > AZ, > My impression of this art show was that technology has produced so > many option for making effects that are less time consuming to do that more > photographer are trying out the market. I did see several booth that were using > the Polaroid transfer technology. One of the Polaroid transfer photographer > shot pictures of peoples, trees and old objects. > > The photographers were a very diverse group in technique, style and > subject matter. There was a traditional rendition of animals by one > photographer that had traveled the globe for many years. There was one photographer > who had painted scenes with bright colors that most people didn't realize > they were altered photographs and didn't seem to care. They bought the pictures > because they liked them. There were panoramas photographer and nature > photographer with leaves close-ups and sunsets and even a close-up of a leaf that > turned blue naturally. (Photographer had to explain this unique leaf with some > typing on a card ). > There was another nature photographer who had some interesting dramatic > shots with glowing colors because he shot pictures of water with time exposures. > One photographer had shoots that suggested to me that he was an amateur just > starting out on being a being a professional. > > The question is whether the photographers will sell enough to make a > go of it. I did observe one group of people who were looking at some large > pictures of flowers on white background who suddenly realized that the pictures > were photographs and immediately walked away. They were impressed when they > thought they were looking at paintings but when they realized they were > photographs printed on canvas they didn't think the art works were even worth > looking at. > > Roy > > > > > ****************************************************************************** > *************** > In a message dated 5/23/2005 9:01:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > don't know what to make of it. Is the photograph market booming? PS > and cheap printers? Most of the work I saw was similar - decorative > scenics and floral. One guy was peeling the emulsion off (what, I don't > know) and re-applying it to paint-stroke textured board "so it looks > like a real painting." No shame! > > AZ
