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Elena Morera (my partner) and I co-own gregory case photography. We specialize in quilt and textile photography and have over 50 clients from over 20 states that send their quilts and textiles to our studio to be featured in books, catalogs, juried shows, exhibits, patterns, and fabric designs. We have over 17 books that feature our photography.
For the last three years, we have photographed the exhibits and events for the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (www.sjquiltmuseum.org). We also photograph artist/designer’s studios and assorted marketing booths at various quilt and textile trade shows. In addition, we are guest bloggers on Quilter’s Buzz (www.quiltersbuzz.com).
Gregory is “Photo Man” on The Quilt Show and has an on-going slide show (see top of this page in the purple navigation bar: "Slideshows") of some of the behind the scenes of the Show and the surrounding La Veta countryside.
We plan to write regularly on this blog about quilt and textile photography and related subjects. Through this blog, we will introduce you to people, books, magazines, websites, blogs, quilts, textiles, patterns, fabric, and designs that you might not be familiar with and we’ll include lots of tips, features, and extended tutorials on how to improve your own quilt and textile photography. Some day, when our time permits, we plan to update our own web site: http://www.gregorycase.com.
We look forward to your comments, suggestions, thoughts, and topics to discuss on this blog. And of course, the opinions and views expressed in this blog are ours alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of The Quilt Show management, sponsors, underwriters, advertisers, or its guests.
The "profile" image (detail) is taken from a quilt Sue Astroth made for us. |
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| | I coulda been a contender... (part 1 of 2) (Click to Read) | 02/02/2008
1,348 views 3 Comments | | | View all My Blogs | 3 Comments | Submit a Comment | | OK, this is embarrasing! I thought I had posted parts 1 and 2 of this article. Imagine my surprise today when I discovered it was not so. Yes, a month has gone by and yes, I coulda been a contender if I could remember to publish the article as I planned to--a month ago! As I sit here red-faced, enjoy the read. In case you don't know, the person with the redder face, that's me. The other guy I'm not sure who he is but I do know he did a great presentation at Road to California and several times referred to himself as Ricky Tims (but in a good way!). 
[Editor's note: One day Photo Man got this "half-baked" idea. He wrote down the idea and sent it off to Mark Lipinski's Quilting Home Magazine. Mark responded almost immediately and said, "loved the piece, but...the magazine is not publishing fiction." (Drats!) But, he enjoyed it and did laugh. So now, dear reader, it is your turn to enjoy the rejection of "I coulda been a contender." Due to the length of this piece, it is separated into two parts. This is part 1; part 2 follows in another blog, labeled part 2. Funny how things work out that way. Read 'em and weep--weep because you could be spending your time in more productive ways than reading this rejection of being a contender! Needless to say, if Mr. Photo Man can't get his act together again, it could be months before you read part 2.] This summer, the Board of International Stitch Quilters & Textile Designers (ISQTD) tried a new approach with their latest "Get Off the Streets" juried quilt and textile show. The judges send out detailed letters to those artists whose work were rejected, explaining why their designs were not selected and encouraged the artists to send back a rebuttal to help break down the traditional "I’m right-you’re wrong" judge and poor-me/misunderstood artist syndrome. Below is selection of rebuttals the ISQTD received. For next year's, "Get a Real Job" show, the Board regrets that due to numerous death threats contained in the rebuttal letters, it does not plan to solicit rebuttal comments again. Dear Judge Lappier:
I’m sorry—but no—I did not know the quilt photo I submitted was your quilt design. I bought the quilt at a garage sale and since I paid over $19 for it, I figured heck, I might as well enter it into this juried art quilt contest. I chose this particular show as your organization was sponsoring it and I hoped to use the prize money to help recoup my purchase price. Of course, if I knew it was your quilt, I would not have submitted the entry. (I understand that it would be a conflict of interest if you voted it the winner!) However, I trust since you rejected my submission on some sort of "copyright issue" that I will receive the full refund for my entry fee. Sir, if I may be so bold, could I suggest in the future, that you put your name on the quilt (somewhere really BIG) so that people like me can know who made it and not look stupid when they submit it to a quilt contest? Also, can you please hurry with the refund as I hope to use this money to submit your quilt to another quilt contest. (I’m pretty sure you’re not involved in this one!) In closing, while your attorney’s letter labeled it copyright infringement, I like to think of it as the highest form of flattery. Love your work!
-- Name withheld pending further criminal charges To Mr./Miss/Ms./Mrs. Judge Nzztqwrlpmvy:
Boy—you’ve got a strange last name! Bet the kids in grade school gave you a hard time! I mean, how do you even pronounce it? I thought I had a funny name! Anyway, I wanted to say how disappointed I was that you rejected my crayon drawing of my textile design. I can’t operate a camera (don’t have any thumbs) and really prefer to work with crayons instead. It was a very accurate crayon drawing, even if the color was seriously off. My favorite Sonora red crayon was missing so I had to use the Luscious-Limey green one instead. As a textile artist, I feel I am free to create with any medium I want and thus was baffled that you wrote back wanting a digital photo instead of my hand-drawn image. Next time, I will have C.R. take a photo of my crayon drawing and hope that takes care of your concerns. Oh, and sorry about the split honey on the drawing.
-- Pooh Judge Mary Dearest: (can’t remember your last name—not that it matters):
Let me explain, since you seem to be a bit daft. I’m an ARTIST. Artists, my dear, don’t read instructions--never have, never will. Artists are WAY BEYOUND instructions. We sense things—we don’t read things. I sent you a huge file that when printed, would be about 1,957 3/4 yards long. I don’t know why your web hosting program crashed. Yes, I do understand it is a large file; it took me five days to upload it to your site. I feel passionate that the world needs to see my fabric vision in all its glory--as I envisioned it. Sure, I could have sent a smaller file, but as an artist, I felt quite strongly—quite STRONGLY indeed—that a smaller file would compromise my artist integrity and I will NEVER—I repeat—NEVER—STAND for that. MY INTEGRITY AS AN ARTIST IS ALL I HAVE!!! I am resubmitting the file again as the quilt world is waiting—impatiently—to see my vision in all its glory!
-- An Artist, my dear, not a reader! To whom it may concern:
Ok, I can’t find it now, but on Wikipedia, just last week, they did have a photo of Benjamin Franklin listening to his iPod while flying his kite in the rain. I seriously can’t believe that my quilt design depicting this famous night scene was rejected in the Historically-Accurate Quilt Category. I mean everyone knows that my little Benny invented the iPod and TiVo! Next time, please get your facts straight so I can win.
-- Marilyn Franklin (Benny’s Mom) Next up: Part 2 and the exciting conclusion! [Editor’s Note: For those who wonder about such things in life, actual quilt and textile designers/artists are, in Photo Man’s experience, far more nicer and much more decent human beings than those fictitiously portrayed above. Any resemblance to any actual juried show, person, character, company, place, event, incident, movie, or a particular quilt publisher, is an inexplicable quandary, mysteriously baffling, absolutely unexplainable, and a total coincidence—it’s fiction after all.] | | | |
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