Photographic call for submissions "Chair"

Description

“chair”

chair : arm, bench, cathedra, saddle, recliner, rocking, throne, papasan, wicker, wing, club, adirondack, barber, café, bombay, Bauhaus, chaise, Eames, musical, director’s, electric, hassock, butterfly, inflatable, high, lawn, tuffet, stool, folding, beanbag…

"Many of us must have first memories of scooting from a festive throne, confident of toys. There is a Eugene Atget photograph of a lone chair out on a leaf strewn, heavy, balustraded Parisian veranda. There is a monument in Washington D.C. There is a story of Ulysses S. Grant trembling in Mathew Brady’s photography studio after a workman fell through a skylight and knocked him from his portrait chair. Rene Magritte painted a chair as a monument, as a man and as a seat for two lovers as fish. There are chairs for taking life and for blessing it. Jackie Kennedy sat smartly in chairs. Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp deciphered chairs. Warhol preferred stools. Mexican lovers move from sillas. I knew a guy once that made a chair out of rocks. Ed Sullivan watched a fellow and a lady balance each other on chairs. Ed Sullivan then let us all watch. Without chairs we would probably all eat at low tables. I sure miss my Granddad in his chair. My Aunt told me once about a lady that tripped over a little kid’s chair and never was the same. My brother put one of my little dollhouse chairs in the gold fish bowl – the fish seemed to like it. I like chairs."

Franklin Cincinnatus

Photographers of all levels are invited to submit work reflecting the theme "chair" to A Smith Gallery by January 8, 2018. Entries of 11 or more images are entitled to a review of submitted entry images by the gallery directors. 

The entry fee is $35 for the first 5 images and $6 for each additional image. 

Fifty to fifty five images will be selected for exhibition and shown in the main gallery from February 16 to March 25, 2018. 

A reception will be held on February 24, 2018 from 4 to 8pm. 
A Blurb full color catalogue of the exhibit with all the accepted entries will be available for purchase. 

Awards are $325 for Juror’s Award, $250 for Director’s Award, three Juror Honorable Mentions each receiving an exhibition catalogue, discretionary Director Honorable Mentions each receiving an exhibition catalogue and $100 for Visitors’ Award.

Juror for "chair" will be S Gayle Stevens, award winning fine art photographer and instructor.