Snapshot Aesthetic: Domestic and Everyday Theme: Snapshot, Domestic and Everyday Black Box Gallery will host a juried group photo show on snapshot, domestic and everyday photography. Kodak introduced the idea “celebrate the moments of your life” and forever changed the visual world. Family photos, sunsets, pets, tourism, parties, friends and home all have become part of our documentation and visual communication. Phone cameras and photo sharing such as Facebook, Instagram and Flicker have made the medium of photography an exploding phenomena of digital imagery. More traditional fine artists such as William Eggleston, Gary Winogrand and Nan Golden have long argued for the casual everyday subject matter as strikingly ordinary and artistically valid. Juror: Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw Photography historian, curator, and educator Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw is editor of Exposure the journal of the Society for Photographic Education. Previously Director and Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery, she organized the exhibition Offspring: Representations of Children in Contemporary Visual Culture, co-curated In the Vernacular: Everyday Photographs from the Rodger Kingston Collection, and edited and contributed an essay to the publication, In the Vernacular: Photography of the Everyday (2008). She was also the curator and author of the exhibition and publication, California Dreamin’: Camera Clubs and the Pictorial Photography Tradition (2004). Stacey organized Selections from the Polaroid Collections, a series of large-scale exhibitions installed at Polaroid Corporation sites around Boston, where she worked as a special projects consultant. She has published book reviews in Afterimage and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, as well as short essays and catalog entries in The Chronicle Review, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography, and Photography: The Whole Story. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of La Verne in Southern California, where she teaches courses in photographic history, theory, and practice. Deadline: September 10 Exhibition Dates: October 1-20, 2014 Each exhibition will have 24 photographs included by the juror for exhibiton at the gallery. An additional 30 photographs will be selected for inclusion in our On-Line Gallery Annex. All photographs from the show will be included in a catalog available for purchase on Blurb Books. Rules/Guidelines: Black Box offers free framing, matting and printing for our exhibitions. The photographers who are selected into the exhibition by the juror will provide a high resolution Tiff or JPEG file for our gallery to print. If the photograper prefers, they can send in framed work or prints that we can frame for the exhibition. We have 18” x 24” black frames. Our white mats are pre cut for 12” x 18”, 12” x 12” and 12” x 16” prints (we also have a few other odd sized matts). We print on an Epson Stylus Pro archival ink jet printer, on Epson Premium Luster Photo paper, in a color-calibrated environment. This is a very accurate custom print, just like a custom lab would print, we have over 20 years of custom printing experience. All exhibition prints will be kept in a flat file after the show for future sale and promotion for the photographer, unless the photographer makes other arrangements. This will allow the gallery to further promote our photographers and exhibitions to collectors, curators, critics and to the general public. Black Box will return ship the exhibiton print to artist if preferred. Black Box will shread all gallery prints after 5 years of exhibition in the flat files. File agreement for accepted photographers who will be using our free printing services. Black Box will only print one exhibition print. If there is a sale inquiry, the photographer will be notified before a sale is confirmed, edition information will be discussed with photographer, the photographer will be sent a authentication document to be signed and go with the print to the collector. No sale or printing of file will happen without prior consent and agreement of photographer. All rights remain to the file and print with the photographer, to be used only with their prior consent. Exhibition print will not be sold, but used in our flatfile at Black Box Gallery only to promote the photographers work. Black Box Gallery takes a 50% commission on all sales, 50% goes to the photographer. If artist prefers the print does not have to be for sale. Print will be for exhibition and promotion only. Notification: All photographers will be notified 7-10 days after the deadline about juror selections. Entry Fee: $35 per entry (an entry includes up to 5 photos). Use Pay Pal or send check to: If sending a check: please indicate sending a check in the email submission. Black Box Gallery, 811 East Burnside St. # 212, Portland Oregon 97214. How to apply: Send in the entry fee and then send an email to: info.blackboxgallery@gmail.com Title the email: Snapshot Aesthetic: Domestic and Everyday In the body of the email please include the following info: Your Name File Set Up: Jpeg files, 1024 pixels on the longest side at 72 DPI, 3MB or less each (saved). Name Files: firstname_lastname1.jpg, firstname_lastname2.jpg, firstname_lastname3.jpg, etc… Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all photographers world wide, both amateur and professional. Copyright: All rights to the photographs remain with the photographer. |