It's completely irrelevant in the context of the art world whether he used Photoshop or not, or what media it's printed on or what type of camera he used, and none of that has any bearing at all on prices.
B > On 23 Feb 2015, at 00:59, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not that I disagree with the bulk of your sentiments here -- I said > much the same to my wife at dinner about admiring the guy's marketing > skills -- but you appear to be stating that "photographs" effectively > cease to exist once chemicals and negatives are out of the loop. An > idea I vehemently disagree with. > > DSLRs, software and inkjet prints are all part of the new photograpy > and thus produce photographs. > > >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:52 PM, P.J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> The quote from the London Gallery owner is pretty telling, not so much about >> Lik, but certianly about the Art photography marked. Let's see, Rhine II, >> wasn't exactly a photograph, it was a heavily Photoshopped inkjet, (Oh, I'm >> sorry, perhaps I should have used the word Gilcee instead of inkjet), print. >> Yet I'll bet that gallery owner didn't blink an eye when it sold for $1.3 >> million. From what I've seen of Lik's work it doesn't require eye bleach, >> (such as Thomas Kinkade's did). It just seems that he's found a way to >> legally separate money from rich people with more money than brains without >> needing a middle man. More power to him I say. >> >> >>> On 2/22/2015 4:39 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >>> >>> So is Lik's work resellable for a lot of money? Apparently, not so much. >>> >>> >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/business/peter-liks-recipe-for-success-sell-prints-print-money.html >>> >> >> >> -- >> I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve >> immortality through not dying. >> -- Woody Allen >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
