inkedmagazine said:
The business of photography is something a lot of photographers, collectors and curators are very passionate about. How do you market yourself? How do you find representation? What kind of prints are acceptable and have a better chance of being picked up by a gallery than others? What should you limit your editions to? How do you price your work? There's so much to talk about and get excited about and for a photographer who is seeking gallery representation to use as a tool! And then there's the goings on in the collector's side of things too! Fine Art Photography auctions, up close interviews with galleries and appraisers, fine art photography book reviews, how a print increases in value over the years!
You want a how-to magazine to tell you how many angles to shoot a bird from, there are lots of other magazines for that.
Jesus men, we got it already, you have reapeated about 5 times that you dont think an analog only magazine will succeed without digital. Many of us happen to think you are wrong. Wrong in your opinion and wrong in your assesement of the market.
What really is starting to piss me off is that now that you have crapped all over your self with your first issue, here you are trying to discourage the creator of Emulsion magazine, yet for all your disagreeing about an all analog magazine, here you are peddling your rag.
Yes, yes, I know you have written you are just responding to the issue of B&W magazine, funny that you fail to mention it yet continue harping about a magazine with "how to articles". B&W does not do "how to articles!" if you havent notice, so you must be referring to Emulsion magazine every time you say this. So let me set you straight in a few points.
The saying explains that when you "assume" you make an ass out of u 'n me...well the saying is wrong, you mostly make an ass of yourself. You are assuming that Emulsion magazine will be a "how to magazine." You could not be more wrong if you tried! There will be some how to articles, but in your ignorance of analog processes you think all the articles are about...how did you put it? ....ah yes, "How to shoot a bird..yak, yak, yak".......Let me give you an example of the kind of resources Aggie has in APUG. I will be submitting to Aggie an article on special tricks to print in pt/pd, these are very simple tricks, but I have not seen them in any book, which I developed to print those negatives where I messed up the exposure and/or developing. I think this will be an article of interest to many, and even if the reader is not doing pt/pd I hope it will be something they wont mind reading, as opposed to an "Ultrachrome ink jet prints and the new 4800 Epson printer, the greater thing since sliced bread, you all need to shut down your darkrooms" article, or an article like you did on your first issue about digital vs analog.
Is digital here to stay? absolutely! yet you fail to mention that analog processes will always have a market, there will always be people and collectors who will appreciate an analog print.
Lets move on to your response I quoted. Do you think you are the only one who has a lock on these topics? Have you done a search on APUG and read all that was said on the same topics, many of the responses given by people who are represented by galleries and have gone through the process.....tell me, how many galleries are you represented by? Do you think you are the only one capable of talking to Gallery owners and curators? I am sorry to disappoint you, but it is as simple as picking up the phone and dialing many of them, I have done it myself.
It is not enough that Aggie announced a contest and then one week later you came on this same forum announcing yours, but now you are here telling us how an all analog magazine wont make it and giving us all the "statistics", when it is obvious you are not very knowledegable of analog photography. So why dont you have some courtesy towards us and stop assuming we are idiots and cannot see through you and your intentions. Let me remind you that when Sean had the idea of creating this site, he was told he was an idiot, moron and a fool, that nobody would want to participate, and here we are 2 years later with a great membership and most importantly the greatest concentration of analog knowledge ever.
So enough with the digital crap and your efforts to undermine Emulsion magazine already, if you feel this way go advertise your magazine on another site and spare us your opinion, we got it the first time you wrote it!