Talk:Julie Blackmon

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Conflict of interest, etc
In this edit, RobertMannGallery adds material, with the edit summary "added more context as requested by artist".

That's not how Wikipedia works. If a biographee wants material to be added, she should indicate this on the article's talk page. (So for this article, here.) Please see "If Wikipedia already has an article about you".

Additionally, the Robert Mann Gallery, selling the biographee's work, has a conflict of interest when writing about it. Please see Conflict of interest. An individual employee of the gallery is welcome to write about Blackmon or her work, but should do so carefully and also disclose his or her relationship with the biographee.

Now let's look at what has been added. Here's one sentence as an example:


 * The coupling of these two influences produces tension between subjects in an otherwise typical domestic setting in which playful behavior in infused with an ever present sense of impending disaster.

Who says this? The photographer? The gallery? Neither is a disinterested arbiter. This may instead be the honest opinion of a gallery employee (whose opinion would in "real life" surely be worth consideration). But many of us have honest opinions, and Wikipedia policy is to refer euphemistically to any that haven't previously been published as "original research" and to avoid them. (See No original research.)

Blackmon does write about Steen here, and it's OK to summarize this and attribute it. But whether she succeeds at what she attempts -- whether there really is an ever-present sense of impending disaster -- isn't the kind of thing that we take on her (or her dealer's) say-so. For that, we need the published word of critics and so forth.

If this seems harsh, note that it applies -- or should apply -- to every photographer's work. (True, there's a lot of crap in Wikipedia that's much worse. Ameliorating or deleting it is a never-ending job.) And of course there are plain-speaking photographers and dealers, and near-worthless critics. But until there's much published about a photographer, an article about them must be factual (and probably boring). (See the article on Jason Eskenazi as an example of one of similar length on a similarly respected US photographer of the same generation.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

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