RE: [Leica] what to do with those PAWs

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Decor Photography = when the furniture costs more than the photograph

Art Photography = when the photograph costs more than the furniture

:)

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] what to do with those PAWs
>
>
> 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/