Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:24 PM 14/02/2000 -0500, Tina wrote: >I know exactly what you mean! The curator of a photographic exhibit of >blurred, tilted, poorly printed photographs once told me condescendingly >that the works were purposely "unaccessible" to the majority of >people. BULL! It may make the "artist" feel superior to produce works >that no one understands, but if they don't communicate anything, they are >worthless worthless to me. > I have the same sentiments. Too much "unaccessible" photography gets hung in galleries. I suspect that the reason for this is that many gallery curators are trained in art history and in traditional art forms. They do not "understand" photography. Small galleries that deal exclusively in photography have to be different. The owners need to understand photography in order to stay in business. Another point is that the market can sometimes place an excessively high value on a photograph not so much for its content, but because of who took the photo.