
If you’ve done a piece you’re proud of and want to try to publish it, submit it for jurying, or just want a print of it in your portfolio, you owe it to yourself to get decent photos. A photograph can never have the tangibility of the work itself, but it has tremendous power to communicate-or miscommunicate–what the thing is like.

Photography shows people who might never see your work in person what that work looks like. Glenn Gordon here offers a guide to doing it well yourself.

A real dilemma for sculptors, furniture makers, potters, and other producers of three-dimensional objects is how to get good photos of their work: everything depends on these images.
