Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Erminia R Quinn wrote: > > Heya Luggers! > > A propos of the recent thread on archival quality prints and selling to the > general public, there's an article in today's NYTimes on what how and why > the general public buys "art" for itself. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/living/08WALL.html?pagewanted=all > > An excerpt: > > "Polly Clive, a television director in Boston ... bought a framed > black-and-white photograph of peonies by Tom Baril, and she bought it to go > with her walls. ><Snip> Kodak has long pushed the concept for photographers of "Décor." With all kinds of fat free pamphlets. People want a big picture for their wall. They don't need it signed by the artist. They don't want art. OK sometimes they do want "art." But the emphasis is Décor. What would look nice over a certain sofa. Now black and white is no longer a hard sell for such stuff. And everyone and his mother is doing panaramics. (but the sofa's have also gotten longer) I'd think people would be outputting their digital files to a service center and skipping the photographer "artist" entirely. Perhaps the definition of a "Décor" photographer is one whose main account is an interior decorator... .. or a furniture store! :) Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/