Facing The Lack of Diversity in Photography and The Arts

[Thardy]

I must admit that I didn't understand the initial problem and the analysis in that article completely. But I think that the perception of art is very class related. My father comes from a big family of craftsmen and farmers. If I went there and told them "I have a business now, I'm a craftsman in photography" they would be very pleased. If I told them "I am a photo artist now" they would ask my father what went wrong in my life. Some of them never went to a museum. In a rural area you even have to travel a long way to get to a museum.
So for me it's pretty natural that the "art industry" concentrates on the people already interested in art and on that kind of art they want to see.

Same here where I live. I know wealthy people who would rather hunt and fish than go to a museum. Of course there is the wealthy good old boy who owns his own trucking business who is an excellent artist himself.

 

[tunalegs]

Are you offering this as an informed fact or merely as a possibility? Everything is possible under the sun, but I do not believe that it has anything to do with culture. It's economic.

Certain cultures have certain priorities. In some cultures art isn't very important. In some cultures that exist in poor societies, art is very important.

If one goes along that line, then one must think is it important to promote art, and if so then how? Is art important? 😕