Comments on: The Ones We Love http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/ MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:06:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Thomas Eagle http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Thomas Eagle Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:49:47 +0000 http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/#comment-69 There isn't much leeway for people deciding to change path after about age 18 is there? I suppose age is still the easiest/fastest way to cut down on the number of entries you have to sift through as a project organiser, and it must go some way to avoiding surprises, but it seems a little, erm, lazy? No matter how large the overlap in numbers of people fitting both terms, "emerging" and "young" don't mean the same thing. Actually, if we were talking about an employment announcement, wouldn't it be discriminatory to put in a mandatory age limit? On the other hand, re. PDN: "emerging" but already with a good client list and a string of exhibitions behind you seems slightly contradictory - that sounds very much like "emerged" to me. I imagine that online "exhibitions" must be gaining rapidly in importance - but I haven't yet gathered which ones... perhaps that's part of the online problem: there's not quite enough of a track record yet? And there is something derogatory and cheap about the "slideshow" type online exhibition. When the Tate Modern in London did "How We Are Now" in collaboration with flickr in 2007, like the "We Are All Photographers Now" show in Lausanne before it, it amounted to thousands of photos being shown for seconds. So in theory one could say one had a photo exhibited in the Tate, but at the same time feel slightly shivery, like a chill, evil wind had blown on one's neck! Of course, if I were 21 I wouldn't even be here writing this... There isn’t much leeway for people deciding to change path after about age 18 is there? I suppose age is still the easiest/fastest way to cut down on the number of entries you have to sift through as a project organiser, and it must go some way to avoiding surprises, but it seems a little, erm, lazy? No matter how large the overlap in numbers of people fitting both terms, “emerging” and “young” don’t mean the same thing. Actually, if we were talking about an employment announcement, wouldn’t it be discriminatory to put in a mandatory age limit?

On the other hand, re. PDN: “emerging” but already with a good client list and a string of exhibitions behind you seems slightly contradictory – that sounds very much like “emerged” to me. I imagine that online “exhibitions” must be gaining rapidly in importance – but I haven’t yet gathered which ones… perhaps that’s part of the online problem: there’s not quite enough of a track record yet? And there is something derogatory and cheap about the “slideshow” type online exhibition. When the Tate Modern in London did “How We Are Now” in collaboration with flickr in 2007, like the “We Are All Photographers Now” show in Lausanne before it, it amounted to thousands of photos being shown for seconds. So in theory one could say one had a photo exhibited in the Tate, but at the same time feel slightly shivery, like a chill, evil wind had blown on one’s neck!

Of course, if I were 21 I wouldn’t even be here writing this…

]]> By: Davin http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Davin Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:29:17 +0000 http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/#comment-58 PDN does present a good age range – 23 to 40 in the <a href="http://www.pdngallery.com/gallery/pdns30/2007/index.htm" rel="nofollow">2007 PDN30</a>. I do think that some exhibition and/or client history can help in "qualifying" someone as emerging. But I'd also say that presenting an emerging body of work in an online format counts as exhibition where some might not agree. PDN does present a good age range – 23 to 40 in the 2007 PDN30. I do think that some exhibition and/or client history can help in “qualifying” someone as emerging. But I’d also say that presenting an emerging body of work in an online format counts as exhibition where some might not agree.

]]> By: n. http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/comment-page-1/#comment-57 n. Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:19:54 +0000 http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/#comment-57 What about the PDN 30 under 30? They're no longer under 30, but you have to have had clients or personal exhibitions to be considered emerging. What about the PDN 30 under 30? They’re no longer under 30, but you have to have had clients or personal exhibitions to be considered emerging.

]]> By: jolayne http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/comment-page-1/#comment-54 jolayne Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:52:54 +0000 http://www.makingroom.com/blog/2007/12/15/the-ones-we-love/#comment-54 so...i've only got one year left! I am interested to hear their response to your email davin, keep me posted. so…i’ve only got one year left! I am interested to hear their response to your email davin, keep me posted.

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