Digital BW, The Print

Yes. This is all new to me too. But, it does seem like they (the galleries
and dealers) perform a valid service for a percentage. It just _sounds_ a
little steep to me to be charging 50% + money for snacks and drinks :)

However, consider... if you sold every print direct... noone would ever get
to see your work... without you running your own gallery, or you having your
own personal bar that you could use as gallery space. etc etc. In that
sense, the gallery, the exhibition, the framing shop window are all
opportunities for you to get your name better known, and to have people
asking for more work, potentially even commisioning work (tho... does that
work with Street photography OR Found Objects ???) <grins>

Nij






> -----Original Message-----
> From: SKID Photography [mailto:skid@...]
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> You ask how to get to the collectors?  That *is* the big
> question...And that is where the galleries and
> dealers come in.  It is *their* job to find those people..  They
> have galleries, which they advertise and
> promote, in order to get collectors interested enough to come in.
>  They do press releases, maintain and send
> out mailing lists, schmooze with art critics etc.  Yes, we might
> be able to do that part ourselves, but then
> it takes away from the time we want to use making art in the
> first place.  Some people enjoy it, some are
> terrible at it.  The choice is yours, but still remember, do not
> confuse art and commerce.
>
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