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Until the next generation replaces them...That the panel of industry experts still prefer ink on paper or some other form of "printed" portfolio should come as no surprise
Perhaps, but for all we know this panel of editors and art directors were "20 Somethings" already. Taking the conversation a bit further does this mean art galleries will die on the vine too supplanted by electronic imagery and not just photographic art galleries either.Until the next generation replaces them...
I doubt a serious art buyer is in their 20s is at a portfolio review. Like most professions, it takes time to climb the ladder.
Well, there are always going to be places like Santa Fe, but it is hardly the center of the world, even the art world. All the nostalgia toward the printed book did not stop that industry from imploding. The new generation does everything on a screen. Wishing something else will not stop the change.
This has nothing to do whether art galleries survive or not, they will. Just like film has. But to think the taste of todays portfolio reviewers are set in stone would be a serious mis-judgement. This has nothing to do with what is "better" or whether things will disappear, this is about how the world is moving.
??? Where?there's no ladder to climb. Art buyer is entry level now.
That does not sound like an entry-level employee to me.They are the nuanced opinions from the top facilitators and gate keepers of the industry we all work in or want to work in.
Sorry, the editors and curators and gallery owners I have ever met in the States or in Japan have not been in their 20s or are they entry-level employees. No offense (I am older than you), but being younger than you does not equate that they are somehow unskilled or unimportant. That is the thing about aging, the space behind you get populated by younger folks. Eventually, you will spend more time at funerals than weddings--unless you are a wedding photographer.Most of the editors I meet in NYC now are younger than I am (47) and most are women,...
Tim, ever view a transparency on a light table? Way better than a print. There was a 24" tablet shown at a tech show this year. The technology is not frozen in time. It is a brave new world.I think the difference between a print and iPad is one is viewed with transmissive light the other with reflective light. The transmissive version taints the product if the end user is buying a print to hang on the wall.
+1there's no ladder to climb. Art buyer is entry level now.
Renaissance artists considered their work to be craft. So did the Greeks. Today, we consider them artists because their work has been separated from it's original mystical and religious purposes. But they considered themselves to be craftsmen.??? There was never anything as a commissioned artist? The churches just hired artists and let them do as they please? "Commercial" art has been around for centuries. And whether you like it or not, there is a wealth of talent crafts people working in commercial art. And you are confusing a target audience of 20 somethings with the people who control the advertising world.
Your point being? You still have a group of individuals using talent in the service of something other than themselves. The more things change...Renaissance artists considered their work to be craft. So did the Greeks. Today, we consider them artists because their work has been separated from it's original mystical and religious purposes. But they considered themselves to be craftsmen.
"Talent in the service of something other than themselves"....that's a craft.Your point being? You still have a group of individuals using talent in the service of something other than themselves. The more things change...
I'm old enough to have done this with my collection of slides. I think its still is a variance on the finished product of a print.Tim, ever view a transparency on a light table? Way better than a print. There was a 24" tablet shown at a tech show this year. The technology is not frozen in time. It is a brave new world.