End of the Road Studio wrote:
Legacy 7 wrote: "I'm one of those that do go to galleries. We have a lot of them here. Plus, being an art major, majoring in photography, I had to frequent the galleries. Those were some fun times during my first two years.

I've been blessed to see some of the most well known photographers film prints as well as not so well known fine arts photographers, local foreign and from other States."

I was similarly blessed. Growing up in SE Wisconsin I spent a lot of time in the museums and galleries in Milwaukee and Chicago.  I curated a show of Edward Weston's work for the local museum. Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Burnhard, the list goes on.

I agree that it is the person behind the camera but this is the same person presenting the work!

I remember all of those names during my art history liberal arts studies and history of photography class. I too have seen those name's work in the galleries here. It's funny, I still have 12 classes to go. Money. Things just stopped after that happen. Sucks because I'm so close to getting done, but time has gone by so damn fast. Anyways, I'd mentioned that because I'd stopped going to the galleries too. I need to jump back on this. My studies went beyond photography. I was blessed to see many well known painters, both old and contemporary painters. And many other art related artist.