[Leica] $1000 per print.....

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

Here's Pop:
http://www.sonc.com/onceupon.htm
I was shooting for Gulf States Magazine and thus in the front row.
Every time he jumped a girl sitting next to me murmured, "Land here . . ."


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:27 PM, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote:

> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:45:42 +0100
> From: "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] $1000 per print.....
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> "scleroplex" <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/fashion/the-marginalized-front-and-center.html?_r=0
> >>>>
>
> Baryshnikov? What's in a name? OK Daddy may have been a ballet dancer, but
> the most important thing is he was a FAMOUS ballet dancer. A famous name, a
> white wall and a large print all help to translate something that's
> possibly
> quite slight into something that's quite covetable. I'm not saying the
> buyers are impressionable, but they just might be :-)
>
> > a fool and his money are easily parted...........
>
> On ballet connections in photography, may I humbly offer myself as an
> example, and state I'm raising my prices accordingly. Alicia Markova - a
> prima ballerina assoluta (see Wikipedia) - was my third cousin. I shall get
> my tights out the next time I go out with a camera.....
>
> Douglas
>
> :-))
>
> there was a great great op-ed piece in the new york times this past week -
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html
>
> - by warren buffet's son
>
> puts in perspective the absolute nonsense in the baryshnikov article about
> doing good and being a socially conscious progressive
> while living in manhattan and selling pictures of poor people for $1000 in
> the hamptons
>
> cheers!
> bharani
>
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