Bill Hunt on Collecting Photographs
Via Coincidences, Aperture has posted an excellent, short interview with Bill Hunt, Director of Photography at Ricco/Maresca Gallery. He talks about how he drifted into collecting photos and current trends in the art photography.
"Aperture : What advice would you give to a young collector just starting out, for example, how to develop an educated eye, how to go about looking for pictures?
Bill Hunt: First of all you go to galleries and museums, and you go to pre-sale exhibitions at the auction houses and look at the catalogs. It's a way to see the whole history of photography as well as what's in the marketplace.
Open yourself up to the visceral experience of looking at photographs and paying attention to what makes your heart beat faster—not what makes your head pound. When you start to notice what are the exceptional moments—what pictures really turn you on—try to identify and articulate what appears to be your own taste in photography."
I have let my Aperture subscription lapse because of the political slant of the mag, plus about 75% of the stuff they print just doesn't do it for me. I assume this interview was a Web-only feature, which is surprising since their site has been so "content-free" for so long.
Loved this entry, Kim! I love my cast-iron pans, and they're definitely well seasoned. Lucky for me, my parents a few years ago went from a normal electric range to one of those glass-top ones, and my mother's ancient cast iron pans all had warped a bit over time and no longer worked well and she was forced to buy a new set. She then brought the old ones down to me in NYC, where I have a gas stovetop, so the slight warp doesn't really matter. They work like a charm. And they remind me of what my mom used to make in them.