Ken;
Hey...congrats! What was the image?
I'm not sure I have a great deal of advice. I too approached a few
galleries with my cibachromes. I was accepted at one. It went out of
business a year later! Turned down at the others cause we already carry ...
It's nice to be compared to David Meunch, I guess, but I would prefer other
circumstances.
I think you've walked into a wonderful opportunity. I certainly would
pursue it eagerly, but patiently. Do you make your own prints? I've
forgotten if you're into darkroom work. If not, obviously, be sure to team
up with a real good, reliable lab. I would be surprised if the gallery does
not require Cibachrome or Crystal Archive or Iris or some other high quality
archival process. If they don't, you probably should. Something that I
haven't completely done yet but would be very worthwhile is a
spare-no-expense representative portfolio. You probably already have
something like this, but you may need to do another specifically for the art
world. It never hurts to have more images to show at the gallery to someone
who's interested, even if they're only 5x7s or 8x10s in a binder. And also
you should probably be prepared to print and matte a reasonable amount of
work for them to show. If you can get them to help with expense, so much the
better.
I wish you lots of luck and don't forget, if it doesn't work the first time,
do what I did and have your wife open her own gallery!
George
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:05 PM
Subject: [OM] Art Gallerys anyone?
>I've had an interesting day today. Karen and I went to Des Moines to look
>at a keyboard and when we got back there were a couple frantic messages on
>our answering machine. It seems that one of my prints had made it's way
>into a gallery where it was being framed. Unfortunately (fortunately) the
>gallery had failed to contact the customer and it hung there for several
>months. The picture got incredible attention, and in fact became a bit of
>an attraction. They ended up placing it in a place of prominant location,
>but was frustrated because it was a customer's print and not one they could
>sell.
>
>...and then...
>
>Somebody REALLY wanted the print. Not just anybody, but really close
>friends of the gallery owners and they are moving away this weekend. Could
>there be any way to get another copy of the print???? The print was
>actually a suprise gift to my wife's best friend from her husband. Well,
>they contacted the husband and to make a long story short they both agreed
>to let it go since "we know the photographer."
>
>The gallery owners happen to be well placed (in fact, the husband has
>sculptures in a number of MAJOR museums) and have been looking for a
>photographer to team up with and market/promote.
>
>I have avoided the art world, intentionally, for a long time, but just
>maybe it might be time to dip my toes in and take my lumps. Who knows, it
>might just pay for the new camera equipment???? It's gotta be better than
>wedding photography. Anybody with experience in the art gallery/wholesale
>arena have any advice/comments? My past experience resulted in "slammed
>doors" and "sorry, we already market xxxxx".
>
>It's nice to be "discovered" once in a while.
>
>Ken Norton
>
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