Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Seeking movie ends super xx
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:14:41 -0800
References: <20121116190352.ZZGI26743.eastrmfepo102.cox.net@eastrmimpo305>

Tom a you out there any idea where to get them
Sent from my iPad

On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:03 AM, "jon.streeter" <jon.streeter at cox.net>  
wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.  Lots of useful info here.
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Art
> Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 6:39 am
>
>
> If you cant get a gallery to hang your prints start off in a coffee  
> shop.
> More people will see them anyway.
> So its kind of a thing where if you want to be an artist than just  
> do what
> artist do.
> Make prints
> Sign them
> Mat and frame them.
> Hang them on a wall.
> Put a price tag on the bottom left hand corner which reflects what  
> up and
> coming photographers are getting in galleries. (2-300 dollars) Not  
> on the
> internet (2-30 bucks).
> The point is really not to sell prints. You're not going to sell  
> many or any
> to even cover your matt board which is 100% rag and will cost some  
> real
> money. Especially when you screw one up on your new mat cutter.
> The point is to put yourself in the right market.
> The gallery market is a market just like the senior graduation pix  
> market or
> the small product shot market. You find out what's being done and  
> you do it.
> Does not take magic powers or having special parents.
>
> Having framed those prints for a coffee shop when some up and coming  
> gallery
> wants your work up maybe in a group show you've already got some  
> framed. You
> just have to get them over there. You put cardboard protector things  
> on the
> outside corners of the frames.
> Black metal simple frames you put together yourself.
> Buy yourself a matt cutter and start cutting window mats with a bevel.
> Buy a Stabilo All 8008 pencil to sign your prints (even semi gloss  
> ones)
> made in Germany.
> Wear a beret.
>
> If its mat prints a simple Staedtler tradition Made in German HB  
> will do. Or
> 2B through 8B.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:17:30 +1000
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Art
>>
>> Au contraire, mon fr?re
>>
>> Fine art is what the client is impressed enough to pay good money  
>> for, to
>> put on their wall ;-)
>> Nothing I ever shot, that's for sure.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>
>>
>>
>> On 16 November 2012 15:5


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