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    Getting your foot in the gallery door

    "How to approach galleries" is a recurrign question on the list

    Some good commonsense advice form Edward Winkleman

    http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/...t-in-door.html

    For 10 extra points, guess the photographer in the picture... :-)
    You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    Quote Originally Posted by tim atherton View Post
    For 10 extra points, guess the photographer in the picture... :-)
    Is right clicking allowed?



    I found the "never, never, never" comment interesting, particularly in light of your photo of the mystery artist.

    Thank you for posting this!

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    damn - guess I should have changed the file name...
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    Quote Originally Posted by tim atherton View Post
    damn - guess I should have changed the file name...
    ... and to quote Michal with the pic!

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    I thought it was more obvious at the end of the article. last line

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    Quote Originally Posted by julian View Post
    ... and to quote Michal with the pic!
    thanks - that's who it was (hence the ....) - I couldn't for the life of me remember - tried John M but it wasn't him
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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    The gist of the article is pretty simple: find a gallery that you like to be in, with photos or without. Or you can use the Thomas Kinkade technique: open up your own gallery.

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian C. Miller View Post
    The gist of the article is pretty simple: find a gallery that you like to be in, with photos or without. Or you can use the Thomas Kinkade technique: open up your own gallery.
    It's a fascinating article. www.art-support.com has a list of 95% of the galleries in the US that deal primarily in photography. It's only $25. For what it's worth, there is a new gallery that just opened up in New York City, Point of View Gallery, that is currently accepting submissions. The owner is a very nice, charming French woman who seems to have a very intriguing taste in the artwork she hangs in her gallery. http://www.pointofviewartgallery.com/index.html I have not, as of yet, had a free Saturday to venture into Chelsea and take a look at her gallery, but as of right now it appears she only has two artists she's representing.

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    Yeah - you can pay $25 or just look up the members of AIPAD and get 90% of those for free.

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    Re: Getting your foot in the gallery door

    Quote Originally Posted by JW Dewdney View Post
    Yeah - you can pay $25 or just look up the members of AIPAD and get 90% of those for free.
    The AIPAD Galleries are members of AIPAD for a reason. It is highly unlikely any photographer who has never had representation from even some of the smaller galleries would be picked up by an AIPAD member gallery. It's not only a matter of quality of a photographer, but also name recognition that gets people in the door. Plus AIPAD only represents about 45% of the population of the US photography galleries.

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