[Leica] Photo show advice wanted.

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Larry,
I think the question you should ask yourself is:

"Is showing my work on a digital frame better than not showing my work at
all?"

The answer, if the question is framed that way, is obvious and in the
affirmative.

A great workshop on a DVD for just this sort of question, very highly
recommended, well worth every cent:

http://www.lenswork.com/workshops/findinganaudience.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> This Sunday, in my post retirement avocation as a free lance art critic, I
> was asked to review a major New York area photo show. The show was the 29
> Annual Exhibit of the Photographers of Northern Westchester, sponsored by
> the Croton Council of the Arts. If you are familiar with the the
> photographic ecosystem of the New York area you will immediately recognize
> that Croton-on-Hudson is one of the few bedroom communities surrounding the
> city in which affluent and successful photographers, advertising
> executives,
> and TV nabobs choose to live. Others are Westport, and Katonah. (But never
> in New Jersey.)
>
> First let me say that the show was excellent, even judged against the high
> standards of the LUG. That's to be expected considering the occupations and
> the skills of the contributors. But the reason I'm posting this is to get
> opinions on a proposal offered by one of the show's organizers. As many
> photographers know, finding gallery space is difficult. There are more
> image
> makers out there than there are walls. Local galleries schedule shows two
> to
> three years in advance. What the show organizer wanted to know was if
> photographers would accept having their images shown on large professional
> quality digital displays rather than as paper prints on a wall. In effect
> the photographers would be time sharing the available space and could be
> able to exhibit a whole portfolio rather than a few mounted prints.
>
> So I am soliciting the opinion of Luggers on this question. How would you
> feel if a photo show consisted of an array of digital frames, each with a
> portfolio of pictures? The advantage is that more photographers could could
> exhibit more works. The disadvantage is that it flies against the
> photographic and artistic tradition of paper or canvas images on walls.
>
> Larry Z
>
> P.S. Of the 62 fine photos hung in the show, only 6 were in B&W.
>
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