When we talk about value, we have to address some key elements that separate the different approaches to making art using photography. I think I would have been disappointed and discouraged by it. I’m very grateful that I didn’t continue teaching. I feel that I can contribute more to the world doing what I’m doing now. I had a change of heart when I finished graduate school. was to continue to teach in higher education. I taught higher education for a few years in fact, the initial reason for getting an M.F.A. It made me start to wonder about the changing perception of art, literature, and education in general. I’d been doing these for years and never had a response, or lack thereof, like this before. The last few wet collodion demonstrations I did (pre-COVID) at the local university, I felt that something was “off.” I couldn’t put my finger on it it just felt like the students were distant and not really interested in my presentation. Their photographic and art world lives online in zeros and ones. I read a scary statistic the other day about “Generation Z” (Zoomer students): very few have ever been to an art gallery (to see work in person), even fewer own any photography books, or books in general, and almost none of them have ever been in a photographic darkroom. Have you ever thought about the importance of the photographic print? What I mean is that when we talk about photography today, it’s usually about posting digital snaps on social media. In this essay, I want to address the idea of value as it relates to prints and books in the photographic fine art world. As well as the importance of books and the meaning of value, This is about the photographic fine art print as an object of value: something tangible and handmade. However, this essay is not about that type of printing, and the ideas that I’m going to address live in a completely different space. I suspect very few actually follow that advice. Storage cards and drives crash all the time. You know what? It’s time to realize that.You hear advice for digital photographers to “print their images.” It’s good advice. I can’t tell the difference between them normally and them in the picture. I see so many girls who look great in photos talk about how terrible they look. I don’t know how this works, but I do know that I’m different from most people my age. Many girls freak out when they see themselves looking bad in a photo (though they look great), but I just brush it off. I have learned to not really care about what I look like in pictures. Yeah, it’s a little annoying, but in the end, it doesn’t really bother me. It’s gotten to the point where one of my friends has a collection of bad photos of me and enjoys sharing them with her friends. I wouldn’t trade being tall for anything, but it’s still kind of funny and slightly awkward. It’s bad when I’m with my girls’ team, because all of the girls except for Megan are a head shorter than me. I don’t do terrible for school pictures, but candid photos or group photos don’t typically turn out well. Photos taken of me when I’m not running typically don’t turn out well either. I have had one good race photo, and that’s because it was taken at the beginning of the 1600 meter race during track. That race face isn’t quite that attractive. I look bad in almost every running photo, as I always have the same race face. There are girls that look perfect in almost every running photo. I haven’t improved much since sixth grade as far as taking pictures. The boys will readily admit that they laughed at the photo for more than five minutes. My friends in cross country, though, thought it was the funniest thing ever.
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