Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It probably is pretentious, but I think it is necessary to get people to buy prints, and I depend on those sales to feed my family. Selling out? Now, working at Walmart (the only real job available where I live!)...that's selling out, lol. Fact is, documentary work has zero market. Publications won't pay for it, and selling prints means targeting collectors of art. Sucks. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 1/3/12 10:47 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >On 1/3/12 8:50 PM, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > >>Are you a "fine art" or a documentary photographer? Seems to me >>different > > >On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Chris Crawford ><chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com >> wrote: > >> I do some of both, and I'm still struggling over how to present that. > > > >It seems to me that to call your own work "fine art" is pretentious. > >To define your own work as "documentary" is not, especially if you are >really making an effort to document (as you do). > >My old website was called "Sonny Carter Documentary Photography" > >After illness reduced my mobility, I moved my work to the "look" blog. > >I thought it more intellectually honest, since my primary subjects were >those at hand. > >( It takes a lot of effort to go shoot like I once did) > > > > > >Regards, > >Sonny >http://sonc.com/look/ >Natchitoches, Louisiana > >USA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information