Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search].....$5000 dollars a print ..... I've just finished reading "Limelight" by Helen Gee, a memoir of the days when she ran the only photo gallery in NYC for 7 years from 1954. An excellent book. Prices were unbelievable. 20, 30 dollars for masterpieces. Adams portfolios for $100. Only one sold! Elsewhere, I read the most Walker Evans ever got for a print was $350. He sold his entire print archive for $50K in 1974. Imagine, he might give you one for buying him a good meal and a bottle of Cognac. < One of these would be a lot more fun to own than some MCI-World Com stock.> Yeah, if I had the 5 grand ..... I just read most of HCB and The Artless Art, and the Capa quote there is much the same as Pierre's translation. The text was over-written, and I skipped a lot of it, but came away thinking his work was informed by a knowledge of all artistic movements and he would avoid any label if possible, though surrealism was a formative influence, as it was for so many photographers then. And now, realized or not. The point was also made that surrealism was not just a style, but a philosophy, a belief system. That whetted my apatite to learn more about the movement. CP - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html