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PhotoLucida 2009: what not to expect from reviewers

April 26, 2009 By JimK 2 Comments

Consistency. My first reviewer looked at a picture of a barber shop in the Washington Heights district in Manhattan. It’s a multi-layered image, with a lot going on. She pointed at a bright blue video game in the middle of the frame, and said: “It could be a good image, but that blue box right… [Read More]

PhotoLucida 2009: the fourth day

April 26, 2009 By JimK Leave a Comment

Five reviews today. Two completely positive, and three with suggestions for improvement. I don’t think it would be very entertaining to walk through all of them; you’ve gotten an idea of how they go from the earlier posts. The different shapes of the pictures in Nighthawks came up again. It seems to bother curators. I… [Read More]

PhotoLucida 2009: the third day

April 25, 2009 By JimK Leave a Comment

Five official reviews today. The first one, with the curator for a Mid-Western museum, went incredibly well.  He called Nighthawks “a fresh approach,” and “some of the best of this kind of work he’s seen.” He also wanted to see work from This Green Growing Land, which I’d left at the hotel. I dropped by… [Read More]

PhotoLucida 2009: the second day

April 24, 2009 By JimK Leave a Comment

Today was nowhere near as grueling as yesterday, but there was a lot to do. It started with three reviews back to back. The first one was with a pair of gallery owners with whom I had corresponded about five years ago. I kind of vaguely remembered them, and I showed them the brochure for… [Read More]

PhotoLucida 2009: the first day

April 23, 2009 By JimK Leave a Comment

I’ve just finished the first day of reviews and I’m a bit overwhelmed. Four formal twenty-minute reviews. Three informal ones by official roving reviewers. Uncountable sharing of pictures with other photographers.  A presentation at lunchtime that took precedence over lunch. And that just got me to five o’clock. The day finished with all 160 photographers… [Read More]

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