man & nature # 194-195 ~ I survived and Hugo tries to grasp a new concept
Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 10:06PM 
Grassy Sound Channel ~ North Wildwood, NJ • click to embiggenI'm back and I survived my 4 days at the Jersey Shore. In fact, you could say that I not only survived but thrived since I returned with a signed gallery representation contract from a very nice gallery on the Jersey Shore - Beacon Art.
I was informed that the owner/manager would be in on Friday between 10AM and 1PM as well as later in the day between 5 and 10PM. That worked out perfectly - I made a cold-call at noon on Friday with a portfolio of 6 24×24" prints, a folio, and a book wherein we closed the deal. I played a round of golf in the afternoon and returned to the gallery after dinner to sign the contract.
The gallery will showcase 5 of my 24×24" Shore Light prints, 4 13×13" Shore Light prints, 1 9×12" 16 print Shore Light folio, and 1 12×12" 40 pg Shore Light POD book. The prints are editions of 15 ($2,000 for 24×24" print, $1050 for 13×13" print), the folio is an open edition ($250), and the book is an edition of 50 ($400).
I will be one of only two photographers represented by the gallery. The other, interestingly enough, also makes square pictures albeit with a medium format/digital-back camera and without vignetted corners.
The gallery kept the book and the folio for immediate display. I will make and frame the prints this coming week and deliver them to the gallery the following week.
Hugo and the wife accompanied me to the gallery in the evening. As we were walking up to the gallery and I was explaining to Hugo that the art gallery was going to sell my pictures, he paused for a moment to ponder the idea and then announced, "I didn't know that taking pictures was art."
This from the mouth of Son of Cinemascapist / Grandson of Landscapist. Where did we go wrong?
Reader Comments (8)
Art? Art? Why, it's just photography! Kid's got it right!! *grin*
Hey Mark,
Congratulations on the gallery contract for the "Shore Light" images!!! and good to have you back posting... and kudos to Hugo... nice to have someone around to keep us humble :)..Craig
Congratulations on the gallery representaiton, Mark.
Nice work Mark.
Congratulations Mark! Nice to know that your work will be seen by a wider audience.
"I didn't know that taking pictures was art." = best quote ever.
I'll just add my congratulations. Well done, and fully deserved.
Well Landscapist and Cinemascapist the "Escapist" is right.
There are millions if billions of people taking pictures on this planet, they are not artist. It is not the taking it's the making.