Finding Others

People have always formed groups. We begin because of that. Life is a result of combination. Civilization is the telling of those gatherings using forms carried by those groups.

How do you find interesting others? Art school is a major place; common ground. A distinction is made between those who went to art school and those who didn’t. Schools are ranked, somewhat, by faculty value in the artworld. Art schools came of age after the general revival of college in the 50s was followed upon by the college student gap of the 60s. This was the culture gap. Between the Greatest Generation and their children the Boomer Generation.

Fear not, the Boomers lost. 1968 broke that bubble.

How do I look for artists? I look at art schools. The web takes me there. I also look at the art world. The web takes me to the gallery schemes. Quite easy to find something like this:

this is after looking at one of these people’s webpage. they listed galleries with their work.

this is, to my eye, a wide range group. That fact makes it a good jump point to current artworld view of photography art.

this isn’t a wide enough age range to be useful for advanced research. You won’t find the edge, not the direction of the photography world. You won’t find that on the established gallery pages.

to find the future, you have to hunt much harder. commerce is about the past, not the future.

commerce hates risk,

hating Art

those who spend weekends wandering — weekdays complaining — a favorite topic is how terrible the “artsy world” is.

Probably in an attempt to moderate, to reconcile, a position of diminution of one group is taken.

Even in polite mode, that group must be called out in quotes — “fine art” — as in snob, or what? Certainly not us. We’re down to earth, taking our pictures seriously. Craft polishing, not apple polishing for those teacher types. We are the elite, they are the effete.

Doing Dye Transfer Nowadays

where to start when the game has ended

months of posts on the dye transfer group.io pages

but only from one person, and only about one topic: their newsletter update.

only the ego keeps them going.

The Browning Meyers groupio has been in disuse for years. The only subscribers seem to be onlookers, hoping to see something. There is nothing to see since the people making dye transfers have moved onto other places to show and tell. To share.

That is the way of old fields managed by old hands. They want to grow the same old things. Their pictures are as empty of meaning as their jokes of humor. Tired, tried. In favor of standardized reproduction. The industrial over the imaginary. This has meant they discount and discourage the young — those drawn to film by cinema. Cinema in manner and meaning. As imbibition was born in movieland, it has been replace by this century’s movieland. The electronic is the eclectic. Dye transfer is no longer an option. The last small group has material enough to print their interests.

Dye transfer gave up the advantage of color variable controllable palette. Dye transfer was killed by the boring hobbyist, led by technicians and tech writers. Landscapes change faster than the landscapers.

in the beginning…

peak noise was reached early…

the decline wasn’t because of the loudest noise… it was the whimpering background noise makers.