there are many materials and pigments which are sensitive to various different types and intensities of light, including daylight and flash, so a blanket ban on flash photography makes a good deal of sense to me, even without taking into consideration how bloody annoying it is for other viewers.
I've been to a number of exhibitions of drawings this year at places such as the Courtauld, Tate, British Museum, National Gallery and so on, and some of the stuff on show has been 500 or more years old. Drawings cannot be shown very often and when they are they tend to be shown in subdued light to reduce the impact. These are serious institutions who nevertheless are obliged to make their collections public. On the subject of tapestries specifically, you can see an example in Hampton Court Palace of a tapestry which has faded the side exposed to light, but retained its brilliance on the sheltered side. This is probably mostly due to UV, but it does demonstrate the impact, so you can probably imagine the effect of thousands on flashes on something that is sensitive to that kind of light. Besides all that, I never understand why people take their crappy little pictures when they can get a much better one on a postcard from the gift shop. This of course does not mean that Erwitt-style museum watching should be banned B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jack Davis > Sent: 25 July 2012 17:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The real reasons why flash use is banned in galleries > > Was advised by a Hearst's Castle tour guide that flash was banned due > to it's continuous used actually leaching color from tapestries and > certain other (unidentified) art work materials. > > Jack Davis________________________________ > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis > http://www.photolightimages.com/ > > From: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 8:38 AM > Subject: Re: The real reasons why flash use is banned in galleries > > Bruce Walker wrote: > > >Comes down to money from tickets and gift shops. And a bit of > >superstition. UV is just not a practical concern. > > > >Most revealing ... http://goo.gl/vdxl8 > > I always assumed flash was banned because it's f*cking inconsiderate to > other people trying to view the art. > > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > http://www.robertstech.com/ > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
