Is Shane gay?
Mar 24, 2008 9:44:28 GMT
Post by Tom on Mar 24, 2008 9:44:28 GMT
neil2445 said:
Okay, here goes guys. Tom; they're all my own photos and my intention is to get them displayed in art galleries and museums. James, the Ilson is Ilkeston and The Observatory is a pub next to the museum there, Thribb; I want Shane to sit down for a quiet hour and look at the work, and to do that I'm prepared to be vetted by you and Dave (okay Dave - no hotline. But you'll still have clout with Shane).All I'm after is a blurb quote; a short summary of the work. You see them all the time on posters, DVD and book covers etc. It'll give added weight while I'm apporaching the above venues because it's been knocked back a lot - too political and emotive.
It's an art method I've never seen before but I'll have a go. The work itself is in two A3 display books, a page of text and a caption wrapped round a relevent scene and the photojournalism photo proper. This is one of the forty scenes...
Main photo: Facing the smashed up McDonalds in May Day 2000 riot, riot police a few feet to my right in full clobber, rioters a few feet to my left.
Caption photo (text wrapped around an intentionally blurred close up of part of the red and yellow sign. Copyright reasons):
‘Have we said hello to the policeman, children?’
Ronald McDonald at Tower Gardens Play Scheme Centre,
Tottenham, August 23, 1996. Ronald was
invited to the annual ‘Fun Day.’
‘McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc, believed that ‘A company only has the right to operate in a community when it is prepared to contribute to it.’
So in every country where we do business, we strive to make a valuable contribution at both a national and local level…
So all our franchisees are encouraged to ‘put something back’ by involving themselves and their staff as much as possible in local events, schools, community groups and organisations and to raise funds for local charities.’
McDonald’s Franchising
(brochure for potential franchisees)
‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but their self-love.’
Wealth of Nations (1776) book 1, chapter 2
Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith
‘We sold them a dream and then paid them as little as possible.’
Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald’s empire.
Outside the damaged London McDonald’s restaurant
during the May Day 2000 anti-capitalist riot
ends. So I'm squaring the opposing sides up and rubbishing the toss-pots. All the way through. Hitler, Thatcher, Kroc, Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, Murdoch, New Labour all get a lashing. The headings are Introduction, Germany, Bosnia, Belfast, Glasgow, England. Subjects include war, poverty, drugs, the inequity in education spending (Twice as much in Kensington on primary kids than in Nottingham and Derby), media distortion (The Sun's treatment of the Hillsborough disaster) and media drivel (The Mirror's front page treatment of a pre-nup contract with Catherine Zeta Jones. Front page news a few years ago.)
And so on. John Pilger (check him out on the net; he was the guy who exposed what was going off in Cambodia) blurbed this: 'Neil Jackson has brought together important photographic evidence of truths that are subversive, because they illuminate the other side of mainstream media propaganda.'
In short it's subversive, has an East Midlands finale, and I'd like Shane to see it so he either tells me to take a hike or gives me a blurb quote. So that's me, boys. I live in Risley, junction 25 of the M1. Anyone can take a look if after they'll vouch for me (if they like it) , but I'm not prepared to drive far. Here's some folk who will vouch for me, - museums (Remind them of 'Conflict' exhibition by Neil Jackson) : Julie Biddlecombe, curator of Westbury Manor Museum, 01329 824895, Erewash (Ilkeston) 0115 9071141 Stephen Flinders. Buxton museum; Manager Ros Westwood 01298 24658. Detective Chief Inspector Kev Buttery; number withheld. Kev can phone you after blocking his number.
Thanks for reading. I'll try and upload some pics now.
I suggest you should contact his agent for this sort of thing. I have a history of looking for quotable reviews for my work, and there is a way to do it, and that's through agents etc.
Otherwise, I would suggest you host an event to show your work and invite the bods you want to comment on it. It seems like a loose kite in the wind going through a forum.
If it's already on display at various places, a good rep and strong turn out should help you to get your work seen by more people. Get them to host an evening and give a speech. Get the arts world snagging and some of the cool, underground mags (Vice etc.) by getting them to your event. If your work has relevance, I guarantee, it'll find it's audience.
Tom.
