[Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

The real "evil," if you will, are the stock agencies that pay photog $.25
when they take in $20.
On Jan 27, 2013 5:40 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I have acquired signed, open edition prints by photographers
> like Peter Turnley and Charles Cramer at very reasonable prices. Lens
> work portfolios, basically the same model, are fantastic value as
> well, usually working out to USD 10-15 each for a letter size print,
> beautifully crafted and finished.
>
> By the way The Online Photographer's latest sale begins today (not at
> US$19.95!):
>
>
> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/large-format-contact-print-sale.html
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 28-Jan-2013, at 4:52 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you hit the relevant link on the side, you can see every print sale
> ans
> > see what cost what.  The $20 print was a Ctein inkjet to demonstrate how
> > small sesnor cameras can make great prints:
> >
> http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/04/print-offer-small-sensor.html
> >
> > I've been exposed to enough bad behaviour by galleries that I really like
> > this model, in which galleries are the only real losers.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, 27 January 2013, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> <javascript:;>>
> >> 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 <javascript:;>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/the-top-mod
> >>>> el-for-print-sales.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> Jayanand
> >>>>
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