There was a little street fair in Santa Cruz this weekend, and while I was downtown I took a few minutes to peruse the booths. There were a couple of photographers there selling prints. I didn't talk to them, and can only assume that they've been selling at fairs long enough to tune their inventory to what sells. Based on that assumption, if I tried to make a living selling prints at a street fair, ether I, or my self respect as an artist, would quickly starve to death.
When I was in high school, the father of one of my best friends would sell his paintings at art shows. He basically had three paintings that he'd do, with minor variations on the boat, the dock, and maybe the sky. He found what sold, and that was what he painted. I suspect that it would be educational sometime to print up a bunch of my photos, and set up a booth at a street fair sometime, just to see what photosi, if any, people liked well enough to spend money on. I'm sure that I would learn a lot from such a weekend. I just don't know whether I'd learn more about my photography, or the artistic tastes of the American public. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
