Talk:Jane Fulton Alt

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[edit] "Best Restaurant of 2007 in the United States"

We read:

Annually since 1996, Alt has accompanied Frontera Grill/Topolobampo Restaurant staff to Mexico. Her photographs, part of her “Images of Mexico” series, are exhibited in the restaurant, which was awarded Best Restaurant of 2007 in the United States by the James Beard Foundation.

To what extent does this award evaluate the decor of the restaurant? (If it's mostly for the food, then why are we being told of the award in this article?) -- Hoary (talk) 01:33, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Ragdale Fellowship Award"

We read:

Alt was the recipient of [...] the 2007 Ragdale Fellowship Award.<ref>[http://www.ragdale.org Ragdale Site]</ref>

That page doesn't mention any such award. The whole site doesn't seem to mention it (though I could have missed something). Google has no hits for the string "Ragdale Fellowship Award".

Google does have many hits for "Ragdale Fellowship", far more than if there were one Fellow per year.

My uneducated guess is that anyone who goes to Ragdale is a "Fellow". Some pay for themselves, some are paid for by their institutions, some are paid for by organizations running contests, etc. If this guess is correct, then she won a stay in Ragdale. (Won from whom?) But I could very well be wrong. Does anyone know? -- Hoary (talk) 09:48, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Publications

In this pair of edits, JazzInstinct changed "Books that include photographs by Alt" to "Publications", and augmented these so that there are now five. Let's look at them one by one:

  • Asensi, Matilde, The Last Cato: A Novel.
    • Presumably a novel by Asensi.
  • Boyd, Terry, City 2000.
    • Amazon.com's editorial comment speaks of 39 photographers; presumably Alt is one of these.
  • Lewis, Peirce F. New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape. 3rd ed.
    • I'd guess that Lewis has used one or more of Alt's photos. (Or rather, that he will have used one or more, in a book that we can believe will materialize.)
  • Maklansky, Steven, ed. Katrina Exposed: A Photographic Reckoning.
    • Presumably Alt is one of the photographers who contributed.
  • McEwan, Ian, First Love, Last Rites. New Ed Edition Vintage, 2006.
    • A novel by McEwan.

Could the contributions to the novels be just of the cover photos?

It's all strangely evasive. Compare "Collections of works by Tanaka" within Kōtarō Tanaka. (He was an amateur photographer and he's fresh in my mind as I've just edited the article.) This lists four books devoted to his works. (The hypercritical could object that two of these are a bit dodgy, but I have solid evidence for their existence -- although I haven't yet seen any of them -- and their devotion to Tanaka's works.) It does not list for example Shashinka wa nani o hyōgen shita ka as only a few pages of this are devoted to Tanaka. The article on Tanaka is crap (I have little information about him and nobody else has piped up), but the way the "publications" are done seems a lot better than what we see for Alt.

If you want to list books with contributions by a photographer, then here's a model (note its contrast with the section immediately above it). And I shouldn't have thought that cover photos merited individual listing. -- Hoary (talk) 01:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC) -- Hoary (talk) 01:39, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Permanent collections

The list of collections that include Alt's works gave as a source:

[http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/janefultonalt/ List of Permanent Collections]

It's pretty clear that this page is supplied by Alt herself, or her representative. It's therefore not an independent source, and I removed it.

Each claim such as this should preferably have a link to the museum's own mention of Alt's photos, and as second best a link to a statement by an independent third party. -- Hoary (talk) 01:50, 26 December 2007 (UTC)