Title:
Seminar: The Value of the Image
Date:
Thursday 31st July 2008
Time:
1pm
Venue:
Lecture Theatre, Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
Tel:
0121 773 7889
Email:
info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Price:
£30/£25 concessions and Rhubarb Review attendants, booking essential please email to reserve a place.
Speakers:
Alison Nordstrom – Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York, USA
Stephen Mayes – International Image Forecaster, New York, USA
Simon Roberts – Award Winning Photographer, Brighton, UK
Conceptualised and chaired by Rhonda Wilson - Creative Director, Rhubarb-Rhubarb
Three remarkable people with a wealth of experience in the fields of Fine Art/Documentary and Commercial Stock photography discuss The Value of the Image at a time where technologies and economics are inextricably bound up in the futures of emerging and mid career photographers, and the ability of those already 'up there ' to remain so.
Far from simply being a question of producing ‘good’ images, the demands on photographers - to be smart in business and savvy in protecting themselves and their images from real time and virtual exploitation, keeping their agents happy, selling work and finding the resources to finance new projects – are the harsh realities for anyone wishing to stay alive in the increasingly complex ladder of opportunity within the image sector.
In this fascinating seminar, Simon Roberts gives a contemporary account of the skills involved in becoming and remaining an international photographer of repute;
Alison Nordström will discuss the acquiring and caring for work in perpetuity - how working with museum collections is fundamentally different from working with sales galleries, temporary exhibitions or alternative spaces and Stephen Mayes will be predicting the future with the demise of copyright and the rise in the value of the web for selling ideas.
Simon Roberts discusses how he moved from a First Class Honours Degree in Human Geography to the winner of the ‘Ian Parry Award’ (1998), the ‘Vic Odden Award’ from the RPS (2007), one of the rising stars in the Independent on Saturday Magazine’s prestigious ‘Talent Issue’(2007), with a major book success – ‘Motherland’ (Chris Boot Publishing, 2007), and grants from the National Media Museum and Arts Council to support his new project ‘We English’. How much of his value as an artist is due to business savvy and how much to creative thinking?
Alison Nordström is the Curator of Photographs at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the world. Previously, she was the Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida for 11 years. In her 25+ years as a museum worker, Nordström has initiated and overseen more than 2000 museum acquisitions, including several artists’ archives. She is the author of “Artists and Archives: Making the Match” in A Visual Artist’s Guide to Estate Planning, published in 2007 by The Marie Walshe Sharpe Art Foundation and The Judith Rothschild Foundation.
The talk discusses how museums are charged with acquiring and caring for work in perpetuity and how this results in a variety of specialized practices. The talk covers such formal concerns as collections policies, acquisitions committees and preservation issues as well as some of the unofficial occurrences that may affect your museum dealings, such as donations, discounts, editioning, preparation, materiality and record keeping. She will also provide a brief discussion of legacy and estate planning for photographers and their archives.
Stephen Mayes has worked with photography, art and journalism for 20 years as a Creative Director (Getty Images, Photonica and Eyestorm.com), and as a CEO (of Network Photographers London’s leading independent reportage agency, also Art + Commerce Image Archive New York, and the New York division of amana - the Japanese photo company), and has curated several internationally touring exhibitions. He is on the board of VII Photo and is secretary of World Press Photo competition. He is renowned throughout the industry as a man of ethical and visionary thinking.
Title: RHUBARB IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRETTY MANNOX SEMINAL BRANDING PRESENTS A LIMITED SERIES OF INSIGHTFUL AND INTIMATE WORKSHOPS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO HELP THE IMAGE ARTISTS UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF BRAND. It's a noisy world where everyone with an offering is vying for attention. But who gets it? Open to photographers within and beyond the International Review Please email above address and quote what session you would like to attend.
Workshops: Making a Marque - From Artist to Seminal Brand
Date:
1st, 2nd and 3rd August 2008
Time:
Friday 1st August: 8am-10am/3pm-5pm, Saturday 2nd August: 8am-10am, Sunday 3rd August: 8am-10am/3pm-5pm
Venue:
Aston Business School, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
Tel:
0121 773 7889
Email:
info@rhubarb-rhubarb.net
Price:
£225 inclusive of VAT for one two hour session. Intimate group size
LEARN HOW TO HARNESS THE UNIQUE STRENGTHS AND QUALITIES THAT DIFFERENTIATE YOU AS AN ARTIST AND ULTIMATELY, HOW TO GRAB YOUR SHARE OF ATTENTION FROM THE BEHEMOTHS OF THE ART WORLD
Answer: those that stand aloft the audio/visual cacophony by consistently delivering what they promise.
Product no longer carries the cache; it's the promise behind it: the brand. Whether that promise is to strike awe into the hearts of beholders; open minds to the possibilities of the abstract, or simply provide an escape from workaday lives -when delivered with consistency reputations are strengthened, and brands are born.