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Subject: Why page numbers are important

rubel opened this issue on Sep 04, 2015 ยท 21 posts


rubel posted Fri, 04 September 2015 at 8:07 AM

Sometimes, if I am looking through tons of images and I'm on, say, page 250, and I see something I like and pass it over and move on and come back say, several days later, it sticks in my mind that I saw the image somewhere around page 250. So I see how long it takes me to get to the first images I saw that day on pages 1 and 2 or 3, and let's pretend they are now on page 22. So I add that to 250 and I go and have a look around page 270, going in either direction several pages until I find that particular image, and then for whatever reason I look up the info on the image and the artist.

The way the galleries are set up today are not conducive to art. They are made for people with short attention spans whose peruse the news. I have never met a single artist with a short attention span in my life, at least when it comes to art. When I look at images, I LOOK at images. I study their composition, their color, their environment, the time of day, the setting, the objects, the light and dark of things, its gravitas or levity or the study it is making, and finally its beauty as an image.

It would take forever to scroll images to page 270. Please, at least for the sake of the galleries, either do away with that tedious Yahoo scrolling baloney or at least bring back page numbers at the top.