ABSTRACT
Any photographic image, be it iconic or obscure, by an emerging artist or a household name, was once unknown to the world. It started as a concept conceived in the shower, a sight captured as a file on an SD card, a half-formed composite on the monitor, or an option on a print test strip. A work of art is created so it can be shown. The offer of an exhibition, perhaps coming out of a review, is not just an exciting dream come true, but also the beginning of another stage of creation: how should these images be presented in a gallery space? This chapter surveys innovative gallery presentations that may be used as inspiration. Any individual photograph is part of a much larger collection of images that share common ground: this will be referred to as a body of work.
