Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is a brilliant system to pay someone off! I wonder who owned those Gursky - he also sounds Russian, so it is very likely this is a bribe being paid off. Medyedev's photograph selling price is probably because of someone trying to curry favour with him, it is too small an amount to be a bribe! Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:49 PM, R. Clayton McKee <rcmphoto at yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Thu, 2/10/11, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> <www.worldinterestingfacts.com/art/top-10-most-expensive-photos-in-the-world-ever-sold.html> >> >> I am baffled how number 1 reached that price. >> >> Interesting that a photo by Mevedev sold for $1.75M. > > > > With "art" markets and museum bidders you just never know about one-offs > and such. ?Prestige can be much more important than actual value. ?Watched > a couple of museum guys run the prices on some classic autos WAY out of > rational a few years back... and neither really wanted the cars, they just > wanted to make sure the OTHER guy didn't get them. ?Hammer fever can be a > fun spectator sport. > > I suspect the price on that Medvedev piece had more to do with politics > than the value or rarity of the image. > > The Gursky... ?Well. ?Do Not Get This. ?Just don't get. > > > (I had no problems with redirects, Firefox on Linux, but I have Noscript > and adblock running and buttoned down VERY tight, with cookies and all > redirect stuff blocked, and looking at the blocked-script listing is STILL > scary. ?I wouldn't recommend anyone go there unless you're well protected; > that page has a lot of nasty ugly stuff hidden underneath.) > > > > R. Clayton McKee > PhotoJournalist > from somewhere just south of somewhere else... > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >