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

by Terry Hope (Author) "For many years the raging debate in photography was whether or not it could truly be considered an art form..." (more)
Key Phrases: fine art market, inkjet prints, fine art photography, Andy Small, John Claridge, Allan Jenkins (more...)

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Product Description
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.

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: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rotovision; illustrated edition edition (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: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #548,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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