Photography’s Prize

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[price/prize] Photography arrived as entertainment, as substitute skill for the leisure class. By 1970 it had gained acceptance in many Art Schools. The 1980s was comfortable for specialized photography galleries; collectors had appetite.

Understanding the awards as assignment; what you should have known. These are Digests of the great works, those artists changing barriers, sometimes by crossing them; sometimes by crossing them off. Self-study assignment: use this to dig into yourself.

They began with an historian building meaning, making a market. The later recipients have re-evaluated the history of photographic uses.

The MacArthur foundation issued its first prize in the field to a historian, Beaumont Newhall in 1984. Photography had much sand to walk before attaining this acceptance. The most recent fellow is Wendy Red Star. Her stated area of focus: 2-D Visual Art, Photography, 3-D Visual Art That she doesn’t list herself as being a Photographer has caused the TOP, Part Time Salesman, concern about his beloved Photography. She may not even use a camera. What will happen to photography without cameras. What can we review. What will we sell.

Wendy Red Star, Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014, from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Original photograph by Charles Milton Bell, 1880, from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

[https://aperture.org/interviews/people-of-the-earth-wendy-red-star/ ]

Some win more… the contest of merit loves to use another’s choice… path dependency isn’t just for mountain climbers. Get one award, another follows.

https://www.macfound.org/ [ based in Chicago, and in 2014 it was the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States] The Fellows Program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

awards are signs

winning one prize, gaining grants or exhibition history becomes easier with prior recognizitions.

Offer something rewarding to the awarding agent, without being so novel to cause doubt. The more conservative the award, the more palatable must be the recipient.

to those who don’t have them who don’t make signs . Awards are more important to those who have not won an award … they guide the young and disappoint the old

Why Some Hate Art

art travels greater boundaries of space, time, legal, geographic as well. Art transcends; can remain dormant until some future needs it.

non-artists are pissed off, but they can’t change art. Although they can’t participate in art they can participate in church, business, in the commerce of church, in law. They cannot participate in Art, other than as consumers. and has blockades so if they don’t want to consumer set up a blockade 

within the US, public grant and award are used to diminish by those believing God as money 

In constant refrain: dig deeper than the advertisers understand. If the applause goes to the amount of the award, then the clapping is noise.

The prize provides access. Sometimes that is good.

“If I could make an income and have a couple of friends to enthuse with me over ideas and things, I should never enter the Art market, and never exhibit.” Man Ray 1922.

sketchbook. fri.1.17

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picture posts are pages from my sketchbook; the bits of raw.

these are from early day fog. walking the easy paths.

[although i always intend to return to the written page with addition reaction, i don’t. it is ongoing question: the addition or the consolidation. My answer has always been (since the middle of last century) work on my own for my own… expand the circle little. I take a table viewpoint of the world.

D-76 Chickenbones

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Have you heard Rumors of a perfect marriage between emulsion and chemistry producing the ideal silver image. Me too. The first time was in 1960.

It has been the goal of mothers of invention for a century. Taint gonna happen; that doesn’t mean you will reset your goals.
D-76 as D-76 becomes very old; 100+ rolls in a 5 gallon tank you might see bromide buildup and so therefore the slow down of the film. This is the result of metol ‘dropping’ –The chicken bones method was to replenish aged D76 with D-23.

Research Shows (its age): The research published was done prior to 1980, other than in patents, so the relevance to modern emulsions is limited, since it’s the contents of the emulsion that are aging the processing chemicals. The only company that could survive the dead ends of basic research is Fujifilm, and they have no reason, no motivation, to research the process in chemistry of black and white. Actually, not even for color– their riding on a profitable horse that is on its last legs.

color bibliography

patents in this century are the only source of research results and they are few– The age of research is over, for analog.

The final coaters of film Kodak Ilford foma, have to float on past research. So do you. Hearsay for a possible solution to your imaging.

My suggestion is to find a better imagination method, but that won’t satisfy your need to ride the Analog Bounce.

Extending the suggestion: DK-50 served me in my first years and jobs. It is also the developer I’ve used to teach the Baker’s Dozen of printers who have experienced the differences between PRE and POST masking. On the realway condition that you are part of the Film revival, you are using 35mm ASA
black-and-white film that you shoot and scan, then rodinal will meet your needs to produce a negative to digitize.
The simplest path to a silver negative is shoot at box speed using the box developer; in other words read the instructions of the emulsion maker; see what they designed the system to do. Fomapan is frequently maligned as carrying an “inflated” speed rating. Their 200 speed film “should be” 100, according to the kin of the internet. These people don’t need directions; they have opinions. Please, read this datasheet.

note the speed difference between D-76 and Microphen. Microphen giving much more speed to this film.