Pop Up Photography Exhibitions

It's all about discovering Art in unexpected places!
As I was walking down State Street I noticed crowds of people moving in and out of the alley across from the Chicago Theater.
It appeared to be a great photo opportunity. I was also just curious as to what all of the excitement was about.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out the event was ACTIVATE at Couch Place. It was a public art celebration put on by Pop-Up Art Loop™  an organization that transforms empty storefronts in the Loop into cultural activation's open to the public.

 http://www.chicagonow.com/another-look-chicago/2013/09/pop-up-art-loop-on-state-street-photo-gallery/#image/1

This is a great idea. Find a small part of your local area that gets a lot of foot traffic, and set up a pop up gallery to show case your photography. If the area is own by someone you may been to seek permission. Get some friends together who also want to exhibit and make up business for each of you and have them show cased under your work. To get people in and wondering what is going on do something different like put a couch or bean bag around where you want to display your work, or hand out drinks or food. If you have a theme to your work make sure that it is in line with the area you are displaying, so those around can relate. If you are displaying in a posh area you might not want to display images street culture.

http://media.smh.com.au/system/ipad/the-elizabeth-street-gallery-project-3741684.html

As with the Elizabeth street gallery (link above) a lot of planning is required and a lot of hands.  You would have to make sure that your images fit your space. Before you even get started measure up the space and make sure images are going to fit, and that you have enough images.

William Eggleston

As whole I am not moved by the work of William Eggleston. It is images like the one below that makes me wonder what the world has come to, if this is the work of one of the most esteemed artist in history. The image can only be describe as ugly.

As much as I understand that much of Eggleston's work was to photograph the ugly as stated in the this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVm8S7mB23o is this ugly for ugly's sake that I find completely forgettable about his work.

However this is not to say that Eggleston's work should be completely overlooked. Eggleston's work has also been described as finding beauty in the banal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGR6_H-G17c and this is where I feel Eggleston occasionally hits the nail on the head. Such as in the two images below where he has used different perspectives to create interest in his images.

Eggleston's work has also been described of well considered in composition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVm8S7mB23o and as shown above this is true for some of his images. But I find that majority of his images are like those below. Taken straight with little interest.