The vast majority of people who love photography literally cannot afford buying a photograph and are reduced to, at best, looking at them as often bad reproductions in books. -Jorg Colberg
Indeed, for a good portion of us- the irony extends to our own work...
Indeed, for a good portion of us- the irony extends to our own work...
2 comments:
True. I'm always amazed at how much time photographers spend trying to market to other photographers. Pretty much a waste of time.
Which speaks to this comment from Jorg's same post:
"Aren’t we art people the outsiders who treat pictures in ways that certainly must strike most normal people as essentially insane?"
And what I was addressing was that with the prices of inks and papers (not to mention finicky digital printers), digital "in house" printing is certainly more convenient these days- as to cost...
A commercial digital print for $50 is light years ahead in quality from a commercial darkroom print of yore- it's still the price of a half decent photo book. And for people like me who literally have to count pennies just to make rent each month, a "badly printed" Blurb book is about the only way to go to see one's work in print.
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