Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/3/04 2:59 PM, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> typed: > Ted Grant wrote: >> Tina Manley said: >> >>> I sell fine art photographic prints. I can't make them for $17.95.<<< >> >> >> Hi Tina, so true.! >> >> Mine start at $300. USA dollars and go up from there whatever the subject. >> Even then it takes a lot of time making the prints, tidying them up and >> handling. >> >> Even when we print on the 2200 we charge the same for those prints and >> produce them on Epson Velvet Fine Art paper 13 X19. We charge the same for >> colour or B&W. >> ted > I charge the same when I use Epson heavyweight archival matt paper with the 2200. Not that anyone's bought one yet! But I lay in wait for my first sucker. Then the avalanche and my first Green Jaguar E type. http://www.jaguar-e-type.net/ Isn't that Velvet stuff fuzzy?!!? I think I tried it once. "In the mid-1970s, art photography became a chic form of investment. The prices for Weston's prints soared from a couple hundred dollars to over a thousand. He came into money for the first time in his life. In the 1970s, Art Wright bought one of Weston's prints of his famous "Ear and Hand" photo for $75. The photo hangs in Wright's house and on the canceled check to Weston is taped to the back of the frame. Today that same print sells for $30,000. For a short time, Weston, who had always been a kind of one man band framing his prints and selling them himself, even hired a manager to sell his prints to rich patrons and corporations. He built a house in on the big island of Hawaii, where he made some of his most astonishing photographs. Much of the money went into cars. His obsession with cars began early on, when he manned the wheel on his father's expeditions. Edward never learned to drive. But by the 1980s, the old Chevy trucks had been replaced by new Corvettes. Two of them. According to Wilson, Weston's first Corvette was a stick shift, which he had a hard time handling after a bite by a poisonous spider impaired his right arm. So he bought an identical Corvette with an automatic transmission. He refused to let anyone else drive him around or drive his cars." http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair12052003.html Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/