Carol Jackaway on wed 18 aug 99
I am getting my slides taken in a couple of weeks and was wondering how
everyone goes about choosing the work to be shot. Is it just the ones that
speek to you as an artist, or do you shot a variety of your work?
I make funcitional art, tea sets that are highly painted and glazed and have
texture, then I do quiet peices that look like shells. Then I do tea pots,
some highly alive with color, some quiet. I thought to take shots of the
diveristy but to have a thread through, such as a certain color running
through all the shots.
On the thread what do you hate most about clay work, this is it. The
dicisions that will impact the entire next year of shows based on what a
slide looks like.
Any help will be appreciated
Carol Jackaway
Dannon Rhudy on thu 19 aug 99
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......>I am getting my slides taken .... wondering
>...... about choosing the work to be shot. ... variety of your work?
>Any help ........
It is generally a good idea to decide how many slides you can
afford to have done. Then if you have a variety of work(s),
divide it into groups, your best work in each area, and photograph
each peice from those groups. How you submit those slides
to juries afterward depends on the type of show/fair/exhibition
involved. Most will want to see a "body of work" - that is, not
one of this and one of that. For fairs, etc., sometimes it can be
helpful to have a small -group shot, if it is VERY well done.
If you think about the work in terms of 1)idea 2)form 3)decoration,
it should be easy to group it, for both photographic and submission
purposes.
Choose a photographer you know and trust. If that is not possible,
get recommendations from folks whose slides look good to you.
Regards,
Dannon Rhudy
potter@koyote.com
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