Exhibiting Photography: A Practical Guide to Choosing a Space, Displaying Your Work, and Everything in Between - Softcover

Read, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0240809394 ISBN 13: 9780240809397

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Creating and organizing successful photography exhibitions requires business finesse and expertise as well as artistic ability. Exhibiting Photography offers step-by-step guidance, paired with anecdotes and case studies of real situations to help photographers at any level improve their business skills, explore new exhibiting techniques and learn to self promote with confidence. Addressing the technical and aesthetic concerns of amateur and professional photographers, rarely discussed in such detail, Shirley Read's informative new book explores: .The process of finding the right exhibition space .How to design and install an exhibition .The right and wrong way to approach a gallery .How to navigate contracts .Pricing and selling .How to establish budgets and timetables Exhibiting Photography also includes documents and check-lists to help photographers stay organized and maximize the success of an exhibition. Enhance your artistic ability by mastering the fundamental social, strategic and organizational skills that successful photographers utilize when navigating the world of art exhibition and commerce.

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Review

"There is a crying need for a business perspective to the contemporary creative arts. My colleagues in the professional world rightly despair at the progressive reduction in confidence and breadth of knowledge of those wishing to enter the world of commerce."
-Geoff Clark, photographer and exhibitor with 40 years' experience

Synopsis

Creating and organizing successful photography exhibitions requires business finesse and expertise as well as artistic ability. "Exhibiting Photography" offers step-by-step guidance, paired with anecdotes and case studies of real situations to help photographers at any level improve their business skills, explore new exhibiting techniques and learn to self promote with confidence.Addressing the technical and aesthetic concerns of amateur and professional photographers, rarely discussed in such detail, Shirley Reads informative new book explores: the process of finding the right exhibition space; how to design and install an exhibition; the right and wrong way to approach a gallery; how to navigate contracts; pricing and selling; and, how to establish budgets and timetables. "Exhibiting Photography" also includes documents and check-lists to help photographers stay organized and maximize the success of an exhibition.Enhance your artistic ability by mastering the fundamental social, strategic and organizational skills that successful photographers utilize when navigating the world of art exhibition and commerce.

Learn the right and wrong way to approach the managers of an exhibition space and how to find one that suits your photography. Gain valuable insight from case studies with real situation dos and donts in actual exhibition settings. This title includes documents and check lists to help you with time management, budgets, invites, figuring out what tools you need for hanging, press releases, and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0240809394
• ISBN 13: 9780240809397
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272