Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Ted its a amazing feeling to do a gallery show and there is lots of stuff you go through which you'd never think unless you went through it yourself when you've had a show. Or hung a show. Or printed a show. Or framed a show. Most of the above. I think most of it is figuring out which images to have in the show. That's most the work right there. Making that commitment. "this is my best work". It's is like you say running a race and it is like a performing art. There is in effect an "It's SHOWTIME" moment. A moment when they first walk in and it all had better have come together. As you say like the finish line. Along the way there are moments when you think the whole thing is impossible and never going to happen. But in the end. You've hung the show. You'll look back in hindsight and see things you should have done differently. Very importantly its an opportunity to see my prints through other peoples eyes giving myself a better perspective as to their real worth. That's how I look at it at least. An experience to have you have my head turned completely around. Performing arts is supposed to be the opposite of graphic arts but like everything - in the end its the same. Next show is going to be just a bit easier and ten shows down the line you're in a groove. As I see it such stuff makes us better photographers. Makes us make better pictures. Gives us better separation in our highlights. Makes us healthy wealthy and wise. In the circle of workflow starting perhaps with the snap of the shutter its the final thing which gets us back to the top, twelve o'clock again. The showing. And people who don't finish that circle are really out in left field as to knowing what the the whole thing is all about - like you do. Congrats!!. Not just on this show but on being an ongoing, producing photographic artist. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:37:48 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>, <leica at freelists.org>, > <leicareflex at freelists.org> > Subject: [Leica] update: April show > > On Saturday I delivered 48 framed prints to the gallery for hanging. Friday > midnight I felt like I was at mile 20 of a marathon, where runners usually > hit "the wall". For those who have yet to run a marathon, "the wall" is > where your energy reserves are totally depleted, all hope is gone, the > dementors are moving in for the kill and you still have 6.2 miles left to > run. IIRC it's where I swore I'd never run again as long as I lived. > > The nagging questions I had were: > > ) are my homemade frames good enough? > ) do I have enough to fill the gallery space? > ) did I print everything too small? > ) is the gallery owner going to tell me I f***ed it all up and now he has > nothing for the month of April? > > Saturday morning driving to the gallery was like mile 26: legs are > cramping, knees are wobbly, energy reserves and brain activity are beyond > gone but THE FINISH LINE IS ONLY 2 TENTHS OF A MILE AWAY! > > As I brought the prints into the gallery the crowds began cheering! The > gallery owner loves the prints, the gallery's framer was delighted with my > frames, mats, everything, and there's plenty to fill the space. The owner > summed it up: "This is going to be a great show". > > BTW I didn't quit running. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information