Fine Art Photography: Creating Beautiful Images for Sale and Display [Hardcover]

Terry Hope (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2003

The international fine art photography market is mushrooming. Enthusiastic amateur and semi-professional photographers are producing prints for home display, exhibitions or for sale, while others are taking part in prints fairs. And the world wide web is now allowing people to sell their work to a global audience. This book examines this phenomenal growth in the market and advises photographers at all levels how to exploit it. Featuring a mixture of high quality fine art photography from an international selection of photographers plus their first hand advice on how they market their work, the book is a winning combination of superb gallery-style shots and hard-headed business advice. Contents include: defining fine art photography, case studies of photographers who are successfully selling fine art prints, dealing with printing for the fine art market and mounting and framing your work.

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About the Author

Terry Hope is a professional photographer and photographic journalist for a number of photography magazines. This is his fifth book for RotoVision.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 159 pages
• Publisher: Rotovision (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2880467241
• ISBN-13: 978-2880467241
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,249,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars High Style, Low Substance, March 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Fine Art Photography: Creating Beautiful Images for Sale and Display (Hardcover)

This is a beautifully designed hard-cover book with many interesting and well-printed photographs.

Unfortunately, the design gets in the way of the information flow. The type is very small (maybe about 6 pt.) and gray. If you have anything less than excellent vision, this may be a difficult read.

This book covers a lot of topics relating to marketing fine art photography. Even with the small type, however, most topics are not covered in depth: a few paragraphs per topic is the norm. It shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to read all of it. The profiles of various photographic artists are interesting, but also brief.

So, if you think of this as a picture book with some added ideas about the creation and marketing of photographs, you'll be happy with your purchase. If you're looking for in-depth coverage of the subject, you'll be disappointed.

-Alan Haynes

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but still valuable, September 5, 2010

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Tracy Marks (Arlington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fine Art Photography: Creating Beautiful Images for Sale and Display (Hardcover)

Although the type is too small and some of the information on printing process, archival paper etc. is already dated, I still found this to be a worthwhile book for photographers wishing to learn about the process and opportunities available for selling their fine art photography. The discussion of the different markets for photo prints (e.g. high-end galleries, commercial markets for posters or postcards, art shows, local exhibitions, websites) and the approach to take when aiming for galleries is particularly useful.

Other topics covered which I found valuable: developing a photographic identity based upon a certain consistency of subject and/or printing style, creating limited editions, pricing, and the accepted method of adding your signature to your work. Also of value are the numerous case studies of different photographers and their approaches to processing, printing and selling.

Photographers not yet entering the professional market can as a result gain an overview of various possibilities and begin to brainstorm and clarify the approach they wish to take. Plus, the book is beautifully designed, and the photos excellent quality.