Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd pay 50 bucks for one. From this guy. A building contractor. Who knows not the photo art market nor the craft of printing from all I can tell. -- Mark William Rabiner mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:48:47 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams Photos Discovered > > It's hard to imagine paying $7,500 for one of these. As Ansel might > say, you might get the score but not the performance. Not his anyway. > I could have bought what was represented as the last P30 ever printed > (by Cole Weston) for $2,500, but that was 1990 when $2,500 was some real > money. Maybe I should have, since of course Cole would be very familiar > with how EW printed it, and they are contact prints anyway. I just > never cared for the image all that much. > > Ken Carney > Oklahoma City, Oklahoma > > On 7/28/2010 9:12 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> Hmmmm. I have no idea on the provenance of these of course. >> Disregarding that, I looked at the web previews of the prints that they >> have >> now advertised for sale following this publicity. >> USD 7,500 for a silver gelatin print made by I have no idea who from these >> negatives. That is the starting range of some authenticated original >> prints >> made and signed by the great man himself. Go to the Ansel Adams Gallery in >> Yosemite and you can purchase a selection of very well known work printed >> on >> silver gelatin by one of Ansel's assistants. USD 225 for the wonderful >> 'Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley' that I fell in love with and look at every >> single day. >> >> Who else thinks this is about money and rarity and collectors over content >> and artisan excellence in the print making? Yes I'm sure that collectors >> will vehemently disagree with me. They're welcome to do that of course. >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information