Re: [artshow_photo] What Subject Matter - Photo District News Article

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>I go to Photo LA every year. Photo LA is one of the largest collector
>photo
>dealer trade shows in the US. I am always amazed at the crap, and the
>prices dealers are paying. It seems that there is very little
>relationship
>to talent. Perhaps refreshing or compelling(?) images. Mostly the more
>mistakes that can be made in image creation the better chance of selling.
>I've seen entire walls of large prints that are so out of focus you can't
>determine the subject matter. The latest craze(maybe last year now) is
>large prints made from iphones with lots of camera movement. I am
>scanning
>old discolored and fuzzy slides from the 60's thinking that maybe they
>have
>a market after all.

This is what happens when the speculation market 'art world' controls fine
art photography instead of photographers. Perhaps there is a lesson to be
learned here.

I certainly hope so as we have refused to learn it for over a hundred
years.

David Kachel

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