Digital BW, The Print

Tim,

I have a friend who was asked to do the same thing by a gallery only 
in her case it was a 15 by 25 weaving she had worked on for 18 
months. She also declinded to leave it for "evaluation" and hucked 
the heavy thing back down three flights to her car. A couple of weeks 
later she found out the gallery operaters skipped town with the work 
of about a dozen artists. True story. Never leave your work unless 
there is an agreement and signed documents. Even then in the last 
gallery show I did one print went "missing." I was never paid and 
never got the print back. I am afraid the gallery world can be a bit 
of a jungle.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tim Atherton" 
<timphoto@n...> wrote:
> as well as the black turtleneck - be as arrogant as you can be!!
> 
> Tim A
> 
> 
> PS - reminds me of the story of Don McCullin being persuaded by his 
agent to
> take some of his work round NY Galleries. He went to one, with a 
portfolio
> of prints (which he painstakingly makes himself). The rather 
snooty, black
> dressed art world type looked at it, really quite liked it as work 
they
> could exhibit. Said to McCullin " well, leave it with us and we'll 
see" Don
> focussed him with his steely "I've faced down more psycho Lebanese 
gunmen
> than you've had hot dinners look" and flatly says "I don't leave my 
prints
> with ANYONE". Art world type flusters - "but all our artists leave 
work for
> us to look at..." McCullin just looks at him and bluntly says "well 
I don't"
> and walks out. I believe the gallery did carry his work...!
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Tucker [mailto:mark@m...]
> > Sent: November 22, 2001 6:47 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Source for ArtGallery Submission Rules?
> >
> >
> > I am placing five prints in a small show at our leading gallery
> > here in town. This is my first go-round with actually dealing with
> > galleries: submissions, resumes, artist statement, etc.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a source for some kind of "rules for gallery
> > submissions"? Or "how to be an art photographer"?
> >
> > Since I come into this from a commercial photography
> > background, I'm out of my area. I'm not even sure that I "have" a
> > resume? And my guard is up for this whole Artist Statement thing
> > -- my term for this kind of "art talk" is "ArtForumHorseS&%t".
> >
> > "Tell me, Mark, what was your motivation to do this piece... blah,
> > blah, blah". I am so against all of this hype talk that I don't 
know
> > what I'd say. I'd almost make up something false just to make
> > fun of the whole game, but I know that would come back to get
> > me in the end.
> >
> > (Thoughts of Julian, and the brick, and the carpet. Oh God).
> >
> > Seriously, any sources of info would be appreciated.
> >
> > -Mark Tucker
> > Wearing Black TurtleNeck
> >
> >
> >
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