as a young photographer, the myth that there is a need to make it can be very damaging. i am half way through photo school (the idea of which turns my stomach sometimes-- but you need to make connections one way or another right?) and finding that i am less and less concerned about making it. i want to be at the top of my art, at the top of what i can do photographically to communicate my ideas. being a celebrity is not what i need or want.(posted 8689 days ago)i think there is a lot of crossover in this post between the myth of the photographer and the reality of the photographer. using the young vixen who's been spoken of throughtout the post, i think she hit the myth on the head. she was discovered, she made a book, she is a celebrity. now she is going to hit the reality. can she keep doing this? can she support herself? can she do another project/book/ series that is relevant and interesting? can she build upon her success?
john, you need to stop whining about the unfairness of the photo world, look long and hard at the realities of what you want, and then either take the plunge and get off your sluggish buttocks, or sit down and stop whining.
in two years anyone who is still posting to this forum can slap me upside the head if i start to whine the same way.
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ps. the vixen's "eye for composition" is present in about 10% of her work, i think she's just getting lucky now and again.