Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My largest print sale was an 11x14 b&w silver print, for $1,000. I felt pretty good about it, almost like a vindication of my time and cost learning photography. That was in retrospect, as I actually don't remember that much of the event. it was a sale at a charity auction with an open bar, toward the end of the auction. The purchaser is a very well-known art collector, and when it was hammered down she collapsed and was carried out. I presume emotions overcame her after scoring a purchase like that. Ken On 9/20/2016 3:41 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >> On Sep 20, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >> >> Well I actually never have either old a print from the Lug Gallery or a >> Facebook gallery. But my body of work grows as I get older and I ain't >> dead >> yet. I have in my life sold prints to collectors and had shows in >> galleries. > Yes. I too have sold prints to collectors; had one man shows in galleries; > participated in group shows; and curated and judged museum shows. > > In FACT my most recent ?art print? sale did actually come from someone > seeing a screen image on Facebook. > > It was one of my IR photographs with the M8; > another camera which you?ve expressed disdain for. > > ;~) > > As far as I?m concerned collectors will purchase for what ever reasons; > and not be limited by what they imagine the camera may have to do with it. > > I?ve sold SX70 polaroid prints; both straight and manipulated. > I?ve sold 4x5 and 8x10 polaroid prints. > I?ve sold silver prints, inkjet prints, RC prints, silkscreen prints, > stone litho prints, prints from engraved metal and wood blocks; mono > prints; and I have no doubt if someone loved an image of mine made with an > iPhone that I could produce a gorgeous print from the file. It will of > course have the ?look? of the tools used in the making; just like all the > technologies which have preceded the current technology: whether > ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, collodion prints, tintypes, the 1960s prints > from extremely grainy 35 mm negatives which many loved and bought, the > gorgeous 12x20 contact print that currently hangs in my living room, and > two other living rooms of ?my collectors?? that?s what I love about > photography? no limits? however small? however large? however > ?alternative?? it all speaks to me? as long as the creator has something > interesting to say - visually and with a serious interest in aesthetics. > > fond regards, > > George > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.linkedin.com/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information