Territory: Worldwide
Theme: black/white
Eligibility: Project for an exhibition
Entry Fees: $40
Prize: Exhibition
history : chronicle, archive, record, study, narrative, story, tale, saga, memoir, artifact, yesterday ……
We think of this call for entry as an open call with a bit of a twist. How would you interpret the camera as a history machine?
“Are you aware what that is you are holding in your hands? Oh no, that was a name given it by someone with little understanding of the true soul of the thing. It is a History Machine. Every image you will make, immediately after you click the shutter, becomes an artifact of history, never to be exactly reproduced again. You my friend will be or are a Historian.” — Franklin Cincinnatus
Kevin Tully and Amanda Smith
“Zip Albacore, not his real name, a name he gave himself after a mind-altering psychedelic experience, he really enjoyed a can of tuna during that experience. He worked in a camera store. No one is sure where “Zip” came from.
Zip had a standard spiel he would give all potential customers.
“Are you aware what that is you are holding in your hands? Oh no, that was a name given it by someone with little understanding of the true soul of the thing. It is a History Machine. Every image you will make, immediately after you click the shutter, becomes an artifact of history, never to be exactly reproduced again. You my friend will be or are a Historian.”
He held the title of “Top Selling Employee” for fifteen straight months in 1972 and 1973. He blamed Disco for his slump in sales in the later part of the decade.
Unfortunately, Zip was run over by a Volkswagen bus as he was photographing spent chewing gum in the streets of San Francisco. His tombstone read “Zip, Historian.” His ashes were spread in San Francisco Bay. His collection of cameras was buried in his cemetery plot. It was confusing, but not unexpected….” — From The History Machine by Franklin Cincinnatus
JUROR | Kevin Tully will be the juror for history. Kevin, co-director of A Smith Gallery, is a photographer, designer, writer and artist. He has over forty years of experience as a landscape designer, furniture designer, fine art painter, photographer and writer. Kevin’s alter-ego and nom de plume, Franklin Cincinnatus, is currently working on a soon-to-be-published collection of stories.
Kevin has curated and installed hundreds of exhibitions for A Smith Gallery and has been a juror for numerous calls-for-entry for the gallery, local organizations, as well as international exhibitions including All About Photo, High and Dry Texas Tech University Photography Exhibition, Analogue Forever, Dodho Magazine, Lamar University Alumni Art Exhibition, International Photography Hall of Fame, and Critical Mass. He was a past president of ARTJC, a non-profit organization of local art galleries. Kevin was an art consultant to and a founder of The Cabinet Oak Project, a juried art exhibition in partnership with The Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park. Kevin also conducts portfolio reviews and mentors individual photographers as well as writing about photography and art.
AWARDS | The awards are as follows:
Jurors Award – an online solo exhibition, “The 27” exhibition book and feature story on the gallery blog
Directors Award – “The 27” exhibition book and a feature story on the gallery blog
Visitors Award (most Instagram likes) – $100
The solo exhibition awarded as the Juror and Director Awards will be scheduled at a mutually agreed time for the duration of a month.
