At the end of every year since 2007 I have published in a choice of either a softback or hardback book a Photo Journal that chronicles my photography for that year. I enjoy doing it but there is a difficulty. It is expensive. Last year it ended up near six-hundred pages at a little over $140, this year I held it to two volumes, four-hundred pages but still well over $120. I needed a less expensive way to get my photography out.
I have a cyberfriend in the Bronx that works at getting gallery shows and at selling his photographs. I am as excited as he is when these efforts pay off. But that is not what I am wanting out of my photography. I am not interested really in selling it but I would like some economical way to share my photographs with others, simply an affirmation of my efforts. I spent many years where I did not show my photographs to anyone and I was perfectly happy. That simply was not important. However in the past few years I have shown my photography and I have become much more involved in photography especially since I became unemployed. So I now have an interest in others seeing what I do and that I think is good. However, what I really would like to achieve right now is some confirmation that what I have been doing for the past sixty years has really not been totally in vain—that it actually has some value to someone other than me.
It is not a money thing. Actually I don’t want to make money because right now I do not have the time or the inclination to deal with a “business.” I’ve had my stint at record keeping and taxes. I just want to know that I do something that someone else finds some pleasure in.
Thus the epiphany—publish a small number of photographs in a magazine format that would be very reasonably priced (yeah, I make a buck twenty per copy if any should actually sell—every three is a Starbucks.) Anyway I am giving it a trial run.
I put the magazine up on MagCloud this evening and posted it on Facebook—it’s fluttering in the breeze at the top of the pole—now comes the joy or success or the agony of defeat. LOL
The magazine, Gary Woodard Gallery 2009 is currently available on MagCloud Publishers for preview and or purchase. It is 44 pages, 40 photograph all for only $10usd. Enjoy.
ADDENDUM: In the first week I sold two copies!! One more and I can make a Starbucks run. I forgot--Janet will want to go too--well maybe week after next.
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