Study of Photographer Social Networks (c. 1988)

Investigator: Katherine A. Giuffre

Population: Photographers

Identification method: The artist population analyzed comprises 159 contemporary fine art photographers who received National Endowment for the Arts photography grants in 1986 and 1988, plus those who had solo shows in New York City in 1988.

Sampling procedure: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed (Sociological Abstracts 98S36973).

N and Response rate: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed.

Publication: Giuffre, Katherine A. 1999. "Sandpiles of Opportunity: Success in the Art World." Social Forces 77 (3): 832.

Summary: Giuffre (1999) uses network analysis to examine the correspondence between artists' positions in a structure of social relations and the critics' conceptions of their work.