Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] PRINT SALES AND SMILE'S :-)
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Sat Oct 21 07:03:24 2006

And here you thought all the income from photos was done with.  ;-)  
Congrats, Mr Arteest!  ;-)

Gene


-------------- Original message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>: 
-------------- 


> Oh there's good news tonight boys and girls!!!!!! Hot damn it doesn't get 
> much better unless you win the lottery. :-) 
> 
> It's pretty rare for me to sell prints of my work as I never considered 
> myself an "art photographer." :-) However a local art gallery was putting 
> together a show and had 3 fine "art photographers" signed on and would I 
> like to hang something? First re-action was... "Who the heck would by my 
> pictures as they're photojournalism not art?" 
> 
> So I had 13 prints hung last week, this afternoon the Gallery lady called 
> and told me 5 pints had been sold at...... $750. 00 each!:-) So if you 
> guys 
> want to call me "ted the artiest!" ;-) I think I can handle it for $750.00 
> per print. 
> 
> Not only that but she said when she changes this show for the Christmas 
> show 
> she would like to keep what she has and if I'd like to hang new photos she 
> would be only too pleased.:-) Oh geeesh the thought of a nice Christmas 
> present! ;-) 
> 
> Hell maybe there's economic life for an old photojournalist after all. :-) 
> 
> It's just sharing good news folks. :-) 
> 
> ted 
> 
> 
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