Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Re: Re: Piezography - real print or not?
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:42:39 -0700

What about Gursky's huge colour prints (digitally done) that sell for up to
$70,000 now??

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: March 6, 2001 4:19 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: Re: Piezography - real print or not?
>
>
> Austin Franklin wrote:
> >
> > > >> And you end up with a "real" print!  ;-)
> > > >
> > > >How long will these prints last?
> > >
> > > 200 years minimum.
> >
> > For Cibas?  Naw.  Not even close from my experience.  You're
> lucky to get
> > 20-25 years out of them...and at that, the fading will be quite
> noticeable.
> >
> > If you hermetically seal them and expose them to no light, possibly...
>
> The art world however seems to have been fooled.
> Color prints had been hardly worth the paper they're printed on
> (OK 2 3 hundred)
> but black and whites get that extra decimal point.
> But Ciba's became the exception. They could sell for many thousands.
> I saw a large one on a wealthy persons wall right next to the
> large Karsh of
> Churchhill and many pricey others.
> It was the only color print in the whole house.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Portland, Oregon
> USA
>
> http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
>