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Fine Photography is a forum for great photography which has not come to the attention of the Fine Art Community. It's intention is to provide a place for photographers to share and sell their photographs, for articles of interest to serious photographers and lovers of great photography, and for promoting the democritization of photography. For every fine photographer who has a strong reputation in the marketplace, there are at least a hundred whose work, though just as fine, is unknown. At least that is our contention.
The market for serious photography is driven by an artificial scarcity. Gallery owners and art critics choose certain photographers to promote not so much for the quality of their work, though certainly quality is considered, but more for fashionability and criticisability. For gallery owners, fashion sells, for critics, criticisability makes their profession possible. Artificial scarcity is also driven by free market economic forces. A photograph by its very nature is infinitely reproducible. However, in order for photographers to make livings, they are forced into printing "Limited Editions", a concept at odds with the medium. A painting is by its nature one of a kind. Photographs are not.
Having made such contentious points, we have to turn around and say that artists represented here, including the founder, sell "Limited Editions". However much we would like to see the world of photography democritized we have to admit that the world of photography is not democritized. We encourage our exhibitors to charge reasonable prices for their work, but we realize that our exhibitors may rely on their incomes from photography, and that in the marketplace it is difficult to sell serious photography that is not part of a "Limited Edition".
You may note that the look of Fine Photography is, shall we say, simple. We've chosen a gray background that should set off photographs well. We've chosen an unadorned look because we are lazy and also to recall the earlier days of the WWW, when significant content was more common than commercial glitz. We'd like to apologize in advance to those with slow internet connections. We've tried to make this first page loadable without to much waiting by using a fairly low quality jpeg for the title photograph. The galleries in Fine Photography are going to be a bit slow because I believe that it is difficult enough to judge photography that has been shrunk for the web to 72ppi without introducing the additional complication of a bunch of jpeg artifacts. We've thus used bigger than usual thumbnails and fairly large jpegs for full sized images in the galleries.
Comments are always welcome
Contact the editor at britt@sciencething.org