{"id":839,"date":"2021-04-08T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=839"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:39:23","slug":"daniel-wolf-65-dies-helped-create-a-market-for-art-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Wolf, 65, Dies; Helped Create a Market for Art Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was at UC Berkeley studying Physics, I added a BA in fine arts. At that time, I have to confess that didn’t consider photography to be Fine Art and thought of it more as craft.\u00a0 I had been making some ‘artistic’ photos and printing them in the darkroom, but somehow my mind was locked.\u00a0 My opinion didn’t change until about 2000 when the very first digital cameras.\u00a0 This article about Daniel Wolf creating an art market for photography in 1984 was interesting to me.\u00a0 I knew that even as far back as 1905 Stieglitz was already exhibiting photos in his gallery on 5th Avenue in New York, but I didn’t realize how big a jump was made in the 80’s.\u00a0 While I was way behind in my thinking about photography being art, I was way ahead on my acceptance of digital as an art form medium.\u00a0 \u00a0I think even today many galleries still only value analog photography as ‘Fine Art’.\u00a0 \u00a0Some analog photographers didn’t even print their own work, but somehow this is still better to the gallery owners than the idea of limitless copies possible from digital negatives. Editioning doesn’t really help.\u00a0 \u00a0Maybe NFT’s will be the new way for artists working with the digital medium?<\/p>\n

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In 1984, he quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum, jump-starting collectors\u2019 interest in the medium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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When I was at UC Berkeley studying Physics, I added a BA in fine arts. At that time, I have to confess that didn’t consider photography to be Fine Art and thought of it more as craft.\u00a0 I had been making some ‘artistic’ photos and printing them in the darkroom, but somehow my mind was locked.\u00a0 My opinion didn’t change until about 2000 when the very first digital cameras.\u00a0 This article about Daniel Wolf creating an art market for photographyRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[195,259,349,384,235,386,385,98],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-article","tag-collector","tag-fine-art","tag-history","tag-museum","tag-new-york-times","tag-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t