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March 23, 2010
In Creative Industries After the First Decade of Debate Terry Flew and Stuart Cunningham from the Creative Industries Faculty, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia wax lyrical about the creative industries, which include film, video, and photography.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, burnt car, Adelaide CBD, 2010
They say that the creative industries approach is a move beyond the traditional discourses of the subsidized arts, and giving a central role to creativity in the generation of economic wealth.
They add that:
Rather than being a discourse that simply champions commercial popular culture as the obverse of traditional “market failure” rationales for arts and cultural funding, what has instead been emerging is a better understanding of the enabling role of public-sector institutions and government-funded cultural activities as drivers of innovation and socially networked markets
It shifts away from the traditional view that rejected markets as incompatible with culture, as it recognizes that most people’s cultural needs are being, for better or worse, supplied by the market as goods and services.
The problem that I have with the creative industries is that my photography does not make money and so it is not part of the image industry. Nor can I see myself becoming a photographer earning my livelihood from photography; or even earning enough from my photography to pay for its ongoing costs.
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A chap once told me that photography was his hobby when he wasn't photographing weddings. He was a happy chap and I guess even though he had conformed a little he had still found his place in the world.
The car reminds me of a fiat I once had where the chicken lived.