Silver gelatin print pricing

DREW WILEY said:

Per the flick - Oh my gosh. Sheer funk is one thing. Pinning photos to raw plywood with its outgassing formaldehyde glue and wood acidity pretty much dooms the work right from the start. As an interesting social experiment - fine. As a legit gallery - nope, not unless it's transparently under the umbrella of "disposable art".

I've never been much of one for the "cheep, cheep, cheep" little bird call. I thought being a starving artist was just a rite of passage en route to somewhere else.

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I think you took it a little too literally. His goal was to do things as cheaply as humanly possible since his budget was essentially zero. What I took away from the video is that one could make use of an empty retail space in order to host an exhibition - either in the windows or perhaps in the space itself, if the owner was amenable. Seems like it could be a win-win: the artist gets to show some work publicly (possibly at no cost) and the owner of the for-rent space now has an art-filled space to market for rent rather than a dreary empty storefront.

In my neighborhood, there are several galleries in garages selling serious art. The best-known is Five Car Garage Gallery. Young people today are holding gallery shows in a spare bedroom or even a closet.

Why not, Pieter, if people will show up? How many of us started out with a darkroom in a spare bedroom or closet? I remember selling a color print right out of the bathroom drum processing stack.

Logan - there have been quite a few of those pop-up temporary group gallery gigs right here in the Bay Area. But if and how they can be insured and responsibly supervised is a more complex topic. A few have become infamous deadly fire traps, just like "art space" collectives per se.

jeffreyg said:

Not at all. My impression is that the OP is also not a professional and his occupation is something else. I am retired from my main occupation but have been serious about photography for over fifty years. When I make a sale I am always grateful that someone appreciates my work enough to purchase it.

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Always remember, it's not the 99% that passes on buying your work, but the 1%, if you're lucky, that does that is your audience/patrons, and after yourself, counts the most, never the masses!

Some deliberately cater to the lowest common denominator of public bad taste, and even get rich doing it. I'd rather dig ditches for a living if it allowed me to photograph in the manner I gravitate toward instead. I've broken out laughing just walking into certain tourist venue galleries, and others, instantly ran out of, literally feeling nauseated.