Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is perhaps a worldwide levelling of prices??? The USA used to have -much- higher prices for art, and much lower prices for consumer durables, like cars and cameras, than here in the UK. Internet "knowledge" causes these sort of things to equalise. FD >________________________________ > From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 12:42 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing > >With print prices off his thing ranging from $19.95 to $395 nothing is being >said.? What would $19.95 buy? Its meaningless. Its just a nod to the >internet way of photo commerce in which everything is a dime a dozen. A >person who grew up with the galleries before the internet as he did knows >that a photographers first show his prints go for a least a couple of >hundred bucks. Now its 20 maybe!? >We take off a decimal point because of what? Volume?!? The internet? Its >nonsense and he should have enough sense to not support the internet lowest >common denominator of demeaning photography by people who are not ever >intending to be serious about it but simply want to justify a hobby >involving huge expenditures. >These kinds of people certainly ruined stock we'd hate to see them ruin the >serious gallery photo art market it may happen with people like this who >should know better seemingly supporting them. >20 dollars a print is what you pay for a wedding blowup from a schlock >wedding photographer. Not anything from somebody resembling an artist >aspiring or otherwise. > > > >On 1/27/13 6:18 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > >> I like Michael Johnston / Brooks Jensen's model. Not that I have made much >> money at all, but I also run special print sales from time to time - $18 >> for a 8.5x11" type of deal. >> >> Get the work out to be seen is my motto. >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj >> <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/the-top-mod >>> el-for-print-sales.html >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jayanand >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> > > > > >-- >Mark William Rabiner >Photography >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >