Christian Moll Book Response

Crusade For Your Art

I really enjoyed reading this book, especially since it was blunt and to the point fluently throughout the book. Even though the book is geared more towards fine art photographers, I still found it very helpful in some areas.

For instant the section on sizing, editioning, and pricing work was really helpful for me. Because even though Photography isn't my major I plan to do a lot  of side work after gradation to get my feet off the ground running. This part in the book really opened my eyes exactly how to price and put any work I make into editions and only make a certain amount of prints. This way it makes the work more of a rare commodity and will help build your reputation as an artist. The best advice I got out that was to make my edition small, because fewer prints will exist in the marketplace, making the image more valuable. I myself have the problem of wanting to make to many prints of just one photo cause i know it will sell. But this has helped me steer away from that to make limited prints of my photos and to keep pushing the envelope to make newer, even better photos than before.

The Website section  of the book really helped me out with my creating my website. Especially since this is where most people will first learn about you and your work is online, so i should focus my efforts to impress viewers with my website. The hardest thing for my website was choosing the right prints to put up without having to few or to many. Schwartz stats that you should showcase the work you want to be known for and that best highlights the purpose and direction of your photography. This really made it easier for me to choose that photo i wanted to put up on my website. You should only put work up that you would want exhibited and that you feel is an accurate representation of me as a photographer.

Overall i really liked this book, it was helpful and am happy i bought it,instead of just renting it, as i will go back to reference it from time to time when in need of an answer or guidence. Especially the list of online photography blogs. I have already used some to find more inspiration for future things i would like to work on. I learned quite a bit from reading this book and will be applying most of what i read into creating a name for myself in the photography world. As long as you make art like you mean it, create something you want to sell and have a business plan you will go far. I plan to be thoughtful and deliberate with my work in hopes of one day making an impact in this world through my photography.