Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A couple of years back I saw just such an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art! I went there to see the Carleton Watkins exhibit, and stopped downstairs to see the more modern photo exhibits. Out of focus, diagonal pictures of feet, streets, etc. And to think I was throwing those first frames away all those years. The really corker was a pure white painting - 3 narrow, tall, canvases of pure white paint. The proverbial white rabbit on a snow field. Not even brush strokes -- the plaque said it conveys the absence of artistic input! If that is museum grade, I should get the Power Painter down and knock out a few dozen in an afternoon. Tom Schofield > Sonny wrote: > >>> So, I have a number of out-of-focus and blurred frames of my > > face, the sky, my feet, the back seat of my car, and the > > inner reaches of my Domke bag.<<< > > Hi Sonny, > This isn't a joke!;-) (well maybe on the tax payers!) > > You should save all those images as some day you may have an opportunity to > do an exhibition of them. And be paid big bucks also. Why? Well a few > years ago a Canadian government photo gallery mounted an exhibition of just > those kinds of images. > > The frames from seven photographers using only images shot at the beginning > of a roll as they loaded their cameras while standing at the back of their > car with the trunk open. We've all done that... loading the camera with lots > of images inside the car trunk. Usually cut and throw file 13. Not these > guys they started to save them. > > No different from the accidental frames of a soft release, besides sometimes > they are quite fascinating, so just sleeve 'em up and keep an eye for a > government department, (your money and mine!) ;-) who want to mount a weird > exhibition of weird photographs! ;-) > > The other thing. Make sure you call it "nouveau art!" And set an > astronomical price for it, people will think you're a photographic genius! > Your welcome.;-) > ted > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant >