Galleries and Landscape photography
Jim Mac Donald
Hi
What are your experiences -your thoughts on galleries and landscape
photography - how to enter?
Exhibition spaces for black and white landscapes? Who are the
Galleries? The many galleries over time that I have queried by
phone or letter, asking for submission guide lines just say no to
landscapes - "Landscapes, landscapes - can't sell. They don't sell".
When I do find a gallery who gives their submission guide lines and
I follow it to a t - submitting a very profession package but it is
usually returned with a short note: "We are more interested in
experimental work or photo/digital work or we are interested only
regional photographers only. Niece work - good luck"
Or "We will keep your slides of your work on file and will contact
you when we have exhibition plans." But I never ever hear from
them again and if re contacted a year later they have no records or
any files.
Or - No reply. No return of your submission. Zip. No reply to
follow up questions.
I know there are *many, many *excellent galleries* and I hope
I don't sound like I am pissing on galleries . I wish to know what
I am doing wrong and where are the galleries who do take risks -
on "another landscape photographer".
What do you suggest? Or maybe it's me - my work?
Cheers.
Jimmer
Jim Mac Donald
No trees, vast canyons, or mountains
Just Serene Arctic Landscape Photography
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gary gaugler
On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 14:20:07 GMT, joy...@arctic.ca (Jim Mac Donald)
wrote:
>Hi
>
>What are your experiences -your thoughts on galleries and landscape
>photography - how to enter?
>
>Exhibition spaces for black and white landscapes? Who are the
>Galleries? The many galleries over time that I have queried by
>phone or letter, asking for submission guide lines just say no to
>landscapes - "Landscapes, landscapes - can't sell. They don't sell".
>
There is your answer right from the horse's mouth.
I enjoy landscape photography and have achieved some nice results.
However, they do not sell well. If put on greeting cards or made
available for calendars or T-shirts, they do move. What moves more
rapidly are nudes, macros and digital manipulations. I am adding
microphotography as straight and manipulated and will see how that
goes.
It is odd that a shot of a field of flowers will not sell whereas a
close up of a single flower will. I can't explain it. But there is
little rationale for doing so since the net result is still the
same--landscapes don't sell as well as other material does.
I too have submitted a bunch of stuff to local galleries and had all
of the landscapes come back (color) and had almost all of the nudes
accepted (b/w) as well as the macros (color) and digital works (color
and b/w). I have also included still lifes (b/w) that are not the
traditional vase and flowers. These are studies of texture, form,
shape and light in, of and around buildings and industrial settings.
These are retained too. Two got printed on palladium by a friend and
these both sold in two days. I got a lot of the other stuff back.
However, there were some sales of prints alone.
I guess I cannot be real supportive about your plight since I have
experienced the same thing. I just added other material that was
more marketable while still doing landscapes and hoping for the best.
Gary Gaugler
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gary gaugler
Alors vos images sont fausses de manipulation plutôt qu'expressions de
réalité.
Pourquoi pas exposition les images originales dans la même
collection comme
le PhotoShop ceux? Je ne trouve pas le particuarly des images affiché
impressionnant. Mais je suis plus d'un réaliste qu'autres peuvent
être.