[Leica] My artist's statement

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)]

Ken, the term Fine Art has been used since the 1700s to distinguish art
done for personal expression from commercial art. I'm not sure why so many
photographers have such a problem with it. Its just a name. Complaining
about it or trying to deconstruct it is not going to make it go away,
there's too much history and tradition behind it.

-- 
Chris Crawford
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On 1/3/12 8:52 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

>On 1/3/2012 7:27 PM, Ken Carney wrote:
>> On 1/3/2012 5:24 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>>> I've finally gotten around to rewriting my very old and outdated
>>> bio/artist's statement on my website. Please read it and let me know
>>> what
>>> you think. Thanks,
>>>
>>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/about_me/bio.php
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>> Chris,
>>
>> I think it is fine.  (Caveat: I have never written an artist's
>> statement and most likely never will, though I have, albeit briefly,
>> read several.)  It tells who you are, your purpose and references to
>> your work.  It is free of BS.  My only question is the reference to
>> "fine art" photography.  One of these days I have to look this up,
>> e.g., is there bad art photography, or average art photography?  If I
>> could make photos like yours, I would just say I am a photographer.
>> Just my 2c.
>>
>> Ken
>>
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>OK, I looked up fine art photography in wikipedia, and found this, which
>I didn't know.  I've never seen an unframed photography exhibit.
>
>
>    Framing and print size
>
>Until the mid 1950s it was widely considered vulgar and pretentious to
>frame a photograph for a gallery exhibition. Prints were usually simply
>pasted onto blockboard or plywood, or given a white border in the
>darkroom and then pinned at the corners onto display boards. Prints were
>thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's
>famous The Family of Man </wiki/The_Family_of_Man> exhibition was
>unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill
>Brandt </wiki/Bill_Brandt>'s MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints
>pasted to thin plywood. From the mid 1950's to about 2000 most gallery
>exhibitions had prints behind glass. Since about 2000 there has been a
>noticeable move toward once again showing contemporary gallery prints on
>boards and without glass. In addition, throughout the twentieth century,
>there was a noticeable increase in the size of prints.
>
>
>
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