Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank I'm not quite absorbing this could you maybe re phrase it maybe its me I've been up all night time to hit the hay. ? On 1/27/13 8:35 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > 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 > > > >> ________________________________ >> 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 >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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-m >>>> od >>>> el-for-print-sales.html >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Jayanand >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/