Crusade For yourArt
Wow this book is truly amazing. This book pretty much covers everything that I feel alot of struggle and deal with as being photographers. A lot of the information that she provided was really straight to the point, she didnt try and make it to confusing to the point where you didnt understand what you were reading. She made the content understandable to where any artist even if you arent a photographer you would be able to relate to the information.
Like I said I enjoyed everything about the book from beginning to end. The beginning parts stood out to me the most, because I think they are the things that I struggle with the most as a photographer. The point that she made when she said that a strong body of work is usually 20 good images is something that I always have to keep in mind. Also when she was talking about how those 20 images usually aren't shot during one shoot. Which is true because I know for my series i've been shooting since early last year, and I feel like I have everything that I want out the series but there is so much more that I think I can put into it, and so many different ways I can display them, or tell a different story with them. Another thing that I enjoyed her talking about was the fact that sometimes we aren't our best critics. I can go out and take 30 pictures, and think all 30 of them are amazing, and then have fresh eyes look at them, or as she said an art critic, or even sit down with a curator at an art gallery, and he or she only think 3 of them work. When I graduate I think thats going to be the scariest thing for me to continue working on series, is the fact that I wont have anyone but myself telling me which pictures would work, and which ones wont. I like how she said as a photographer you have to find yourself and theres 3 different levels that we go through we we are trying to find out what we want to say through our work.
With that being said I enjoy how she mentioned that as a photographer you have to figure out your audience, and you have to figure out at the end of the day what it truly is that you want from your work. You have to figure out does your work fit into a gallery setting? Can you make work that can fit into a gallery setting? Not everyones work is meant to be put into a gallery, and not everyone wants their work to be in a gallery. This comes with what she was talking about how we all define our success differently, and success is different for all of us. For example, I would love to be in more galleries in the future, but I know with the work that I truly want to do, I rather have my work published in magazines, and online where I know a wider audience will see more of my work rather than people who have to go to the gallery specifically to see my work.
All in all the book was truly amazing and something that I would recommend for any artist, and something that I would hold onto forever. The blogs at the end were really helpful to because we all need inspiration, and I enjoyed the part where she said we can all get inspiration for our work not just from photography but from all aspects of art.
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