[Leica] My artist's statement

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

On 1/3/2012 7:27 PM, Ken Carney wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 5:24 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>> I've finally gotten around to rewriting my very old and outdated
>> bio/artist's statement on my website. Please read it and let me know 
>> what
>> you think. Thanks,
>>
>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/about_me/bio.php
>>
>> Chris
>>
> Chris,
>
> I think it is fine.  (Caveat: I have never written an artist's 
> statement and most likely never will, though I have, albeit briefly, 
> read several.)  It tells who you are, your purpose and references to 
> your work.  It is free of BS.  My only question is the reference to 
> "fine art" photography.  One of these days I have to look this up, 
> e.g., is there bad art photography, or average art photography?  If I 
> could make photos like yours, I would just say I am a photographer. 
> Just my 2c.
>
> Ken
>
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OK, I looked up fine art photography in wikipedia, and found this, which 
I didn't know.  I've never seen an unframed photography exhibit.


    Framing and print size

Until the mid 1950s it was widely considered vulgar and pretentious to 
frame a photograph for a gallery exhibition. Prints were usually simply 
pasted onto blockboard or plywood, or given a white border in the 
darkroom and then pinned at the corners onto display boards. Prints were 
thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's 
famous The Family of Man </wiki/The_Family_of_Man> exhibition was 
unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill 
Brandt </wiki/Bill_Brandt>'s MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints 
pasted to thin plywood. From the mid 1950's to about 2000 most gallery 
exhibitions had prints behind glass. Since about 2000 there has been a 
noticeable move toward once again showing contemporary gallery prints on 
boards and without glass. In addition, throughout the twentieth century, 
there was a noticeable increase in the size of prints.