Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cartier-Bresson exhibition
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:38:21 -0600

HCB does not consider his photographs to be art. He considers them to be 
photo journalism. As such, he does not  limit editions so the prints 
sell for about $5000US and have done so for the quite a few years. Do 
not expect them to rise in value much as they are not particularly rare. 
His original work prints from the fifties and sixties are what the 
collectors want and pay big bucks for. This annoys the heck out of HCB 
who goes to great lengths to make sure they do not get released for sale.

John Collier

On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 08:42 AM, Lee England wrote:

> 	The prices were $5,000 a print and included some of his most
> famous.  Does anyone have any experience with the prices these prints
> bring?  If $5,000 is fair, the value will only go up, especially for
> signed prints.  One of these would be a lot more fun to own than some
> MCI-World Com stock.

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