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Subject: [Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:35:04 +0000 (GMT)
References: <CAF8hL-FuvtmGHP0+yVmCJ9FUpWNFKxr+497Jy-sNAZKzk4cqtQ@mail.gmail.com> <CD2A8AD2.4538%mark@rabinergroup.com>

There is perhaps a worldwide levelling of prices???
The USA used to have -much- higher prices for art, and much lower prices for 
consumer durables, like cars and cameras, than here in the UK.
Internet "knowledge" causes these sort of things to equalise.
FD



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> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 12:42
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing
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>With print prices off his thing ranging from $19.95 to $395 nothing is being
>said.? What would $19.95 buy? Its meaningless. Its just a nod to the
>internet way of photo commerce in which everything is a dime a dozen. A
>person who grew up with the galleries before the internet as he did knows
>that a photographers first show his prints go for a least a couple of
>hundred bucks. Now its 20 maybe!?
>We take off a decimal point because of what? Volume?!? The internet? Its
>nonsense and he should have enough sense to not support the internet lowest
>common denominator of demeaning photography by people who are not ever
>intending to be serious about it but simply want to justify a hobby
>involving huge expenditures.
>These kinds of people certainly ruined stock we'd hate to see them ruin the
>serious gallery photo art market it may happen with people like this who
>should know better seemingly supporting them.
>20 dollars a print is what you pay for a wedding blowup from a schlock
>wedding photographer. Not anything from somebody resembling an artist
>aspiring or otherwise.
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>On 1/27/13 6:18 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>
>> I like Michael Johnston / Brooks Jensen's model. Not that I have made much
>> money at all, but I also run special print sales from time to time - $18
>> for a 8.5x11" type of deal.
>> 
>> Get the work out to be seen is my motto.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
>> <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/the-top-mod
>>> el-for-print-sales.html
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>> 
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