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ONE WAY TO GET AN IDEA ABOUT WHETHER YOUR PICTURES ARE CONSIDERED TO BE fine art (or not) is to submit a representative selection of your work (from body of work) to an art gallery in response to a request for submissions for consideration for a solo exhibition.
The pictures in this entry are pictures that I submitted this week to an art gallery in response to a request for work for consideration for a solo exhibition. The title of the body of work is detritus & undergrowth. Now I wait for a month to find out if I make the cut.
FYI, the body of work has been created , with only a casual sense of dedication to making such pictures, over the past 20 years. FYI, my son (the Cinemascapist) referred to the making of the pictures as my Jackson Pollack period.
In any event, while we are on the topic of fine art, I thought I would pass along my thoughts (a Baker’s Dozen of them) for your consideration, re: whether you are capable of making fine art photographs. To wit, you might not be on course for making fine art photographs if…
you think that circle of confusion is feeling you get when you view William Eggleston’s photographs
you think that a focus ring is how a focus group sits
you think that a proof print is what you show the doorman at a discotheque
you think that a darkroom is a room in your house were you draw the shades and take a nap
you think that an enlarger is a device you buy at a sex shop and use in a dark room
you think that museum glass is only found in the doors and windows of a museum
you think that the fixer is a mean-looking mob hitman
you think that fine art is what you say when Art asks you how you’re doing
you think that contact sheets is what you do when you get in bed
you get itchy fingers every time a new camera is introduced cuz…
you still can’t shake the idea that a “better” camera will make you a better picture maker
you don’t have a photo quality printer but you do have 3 or more lens for your camera
you have uttered the word microcontrast more than once in your life