Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And here you thought all the income from photos was done with. ;-) Congrats, Mr Arteest! ;-) Gene -------------- Original message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>: -------------- > Oh there's good news tonight boys and girls!!!!!! Hot damn it doesn't get > much better unless you win the lottery. :-) > > It's pretty rare for me to sell prints of my work as I never considered > myself an "art photographer." :-) However a local art gallery was putting > together a show and had 3 fine "art photographers" signed on and would I > like to hang something? First re-action was... "Who the heck would by my > pictures as they're photojournalism not art?" > > So I had 13 prints hung last week, this afternoon the Gallery lady called > and told me 5 pints had been sold at...... $750. 00 each!:-) So if you > guys > want to call me "ted the artiest!" ;-) I think I can handle it for $750.00 > per print. > > Not only that but she said when she changes this show for the Christmas > show > she would like to keep what she has and if I'd like to hang new photos she > would be only too pleased.:-) Oh geeesh the thought of a nice Christmas > present! ;-) > > Hell maybe there's economic life for an old photojournalist after all. :-) > > It's just sharing good news folks. :-) > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information