Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom a you out there any idea where to get them Sent from my iPad On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:03 AM, "jon.streeter" <jon.streeter at cox.net> wrote: > Thanks, Mark. Lots of useful info here. > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Art > Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 6:39 am > > > If you cant get a gallery to hang your prints start off in a coffee > shop. > More people will see them anyway. > So its kind of a thing where if you want to be an artist than just > do what > artist do. > Make prints > Sign them > Mat and frame them. > Hang them on a wall. > Put a price tag on the bottom left hand corner which reflects what > up and > coming photographers are getting in galleries. (2-300 dollars) Not > on the > internet (2-30 bucks). > The point is really not to sell prints. You're not going to sell > many or any > to even cover your matt board which is 100% rag and will cost some > real > money. Especially when you screw one up on your new mat cutter. > The point is to put yourself in the right market. > The gallery market is a market just like the senior graduation pix > market or > the small product shot market. You find out what's being done and > you do it. > Does not take magic powers or having special parents. > > Having framed those prints for a coffee shop when some up and coming > gallery > wants your work up maybe in a group show you've already got some > framed. You > just have to get them over there. You put cardboard protector things > on the > outside corners of the frames. > Black metal simple frames you put together yourself. > Buy yourself a matt cutter and start cutting window mats with a bevel. > Buy a Stabilo All 8008 pencil to sign your prints (even semi gloss > ones) > made in Germany. > Wear a beret. > > If its mat prints a simple Staedtler tradition Made in German HB > will do. Or > 2B through 8B. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:17:30 +1000 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Art >> >> Au contraire, mon fr?re >> >> Fine art is what the client is impressed enough to pay good money >> for, to >> put on their wall ;-) >> Nothing I ever shot, that's for sure. >> >> Cheers, >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >> >> On 16 November 2012 15:5