MarianaNicole: April 2010

Chapter 5- Artist and the Artist's Image

This chapter focuses on how an artist can spend forever trying to find the perfect photo that will make them be known or more like they obsess over what they have made and how they can make it better rather than what art they really are creating. They discuss the stereotype that is put to artists as "poor, dirty, disheveled, tubercular maybe, and periodically in the grip of poetic frenzy." This is definitely what most people think when they see or hear about an artist who either just started there career and hasn't become famous and been able to make money or the artist who is still crazy and dirty after they become famous.

Chapter 6- The Color Monster

This chapter talks about color and how his students and most other students don't

understand color. He started teaching a color class to get the students more comfortable and be more knowledgeable about color when using it in their work. I can see why he thinks students don't use color. As a photographer I never really look at color in my photos then I do when looking at the object in the photo. I usually turn my photos into black and white, which I need to learn to move away from. He called color a "monster" because students tend to stay away from having color in their work and it ends up making their picture not as good as it could have been.

Chapter 7- Galleries, Portfolios, and Webpages

This chapter discusses how an artist will never be recognized if they don't have the right kind and amount of advertisement. People need to be able to see their work and know it's there if he wants to make money from it. People want the easiest way possible to find it so that it why the internet is a good place to go. Rarely will people find a new artists and then buy their work. They must first be recognized to the world along with their work and get their name out, then people will start to find them and want to buy their art work. They then talk about the importance of entering art shows and list the types of art shows that offer the least prestige and the most prestige and will help the artist.

Chapter 8- Jobs for Young Artists

The main reason I chose not to make Photography my Major was because most photographers don't make a whole lot of money, or not as much as they wish they could be making. I chose to stick to a Business Major so I had that degree to fall on if I wasn't that successful in Photography. Sure I could start my own photography business and take portrait photography and still make a decent amount of money. But I would still like to have another, more stable job, as well. Another thing I would really be interested in, and makes a little more money, is fashion photography. I would get to work with so many famous and high status people that I could potentially make a lot of money by doing this.

Chapter 9- Working Space

I would love to one day have my own studio. I have no idea where I would like to move to later in life, but according to the book this is an important factor when deciding to have your own studio. This chapter gives you tips and warnings when it comes to building your own studio. It even gives you ideas to how to build your own studio when you finally have enough money to of course. Right now since I do not have a studio i do most of my work in my apartment but I shoot outdoors. Thank goodness I live in Texas, where it is mostly sunny and hot enough to have shoots outside.