It might be interesting to graph "date of sale" against "price". The
Cindy Sherman print was sold just last week.
When was Stieglitz's "Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)" sold? If that same print
were for sale in the current market, it would probably fetch more than
$4 million.
Is Stieglitz's "Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) really worth $110,000 more than
Stieglits's "Georgia O'Keeffe Nude"? Is Steichen's "The Pond-Moonlight"
really worth $1.9 million more than Peter Lik's "One"?
Is Peter Lik's "One" really worth $1 million? If so, why aren't my
soft-focus images of reflected fall color worth that much?
It's not really a measure of the intrinsic worth of the images as much
as it's a record of the nouveau riche "investing" in art and inflating
prices.
It's not the only place it happens.
When I was a teenager, you could find used 50s vintage Stratocasters &
Telecasters for a couple hundred bucks. Guitars you could play. Not any
more. They're all locked away in some collector's climate controlled
display cases, never to be touched by an un-gloved human hand again.
For the record, I appreciate and admire Steichen, Stieglitz and Weston's
work. I appreciate most of the other images (Gursky's work doesn't do
much for me, but that's a matter of taste, not criticism of the work
itself), but I wouldn't pay millions for any of the originals, even if I
had that kind of money to waste.
Whoever bought it won't miss the money at all. And probably will "loan"
the print to some museum and thereby qualify for a tax write-off that
will shift the actual cost to the taxpayer anyway.
From: "Daniel J. Matyola"
Stieglitz' image of Georgia O'Keeffe's hands is an absolutely stunning
image, IMO.
Dan
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:29 +1000, "John Coyle" <jco...@iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
>> I've never quite understood why Steichen's murky pictures are so
>> well-regarded, had I
>> taken them I would never have bothered to waste a sheet of paper or my
>> time and chemicals
>> printing them.
>> Cindy Sherman is another example of someone whose fame is beyond me - the
>> example shown on
>> this site is a very ordinary snapshot.
>
>
>
> Mike Johnston's piece on this is especially entertaining - as are some
> of the accompanying comments (I particularly like "Anyone who can fork
> over that much for a photograph already has a title".
>
>
>
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/05/wtf-no-1289.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3fdvw26
>
>
>
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