On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > 'Comes to the fore' in the way I meant it is not about commercial success > but about recognition. Some of the works that are now recognised as among > the best in their field were never commercial successes. What they > benefitted from was publication by people and organisations who did not > expect to turn a profit on everything, but who used the commercially > successful to subsidise the good, when they did not coincidence, and > exposure to people who were in a position to promote the stuff on the > grounds of its quality. > > With the democratisation of publishing, the difficulty that writers and > photographers will have is to find a way of getting the right exposure to > the right people. People are not going to look at a great many places in > search of good work, so the outlets will coalesce around a few sites for > each audience - there will be a huge proliferation of overlapping audiences > - and somebody will curate each site.
When "everyone is an artist", everyone is also a part time curator. Nobody has the time or patience to do a thorough and skilled job of it, so we skim and burn our eyes on a lot of toxic sludge. But there are examples of non-profit curated sources with some skill and class that are attracting increased attention. Not to everyone's taste, but http://thisisnthappiness.com/ is one of my consistent faves. The Tumblr site encourages amateur curating, and some folks exhibit excellent taste there. Perhaps we'll be saved by self-financed patrons and philanthropists. -- -bmw -- 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.
