Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/04

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Subject: [Leica] Critiques
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 13:08:11 -0700
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> On May 4, 2015, at 12:44 PM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> 
>> I suspect you can add one more thing that is important to some...will it 
>> sell?
>> 
>> This is pragmatically key, maybe it should matter, maybe not...but it 
>> does.
>> 
>> History has proven that what sells may have little to do with artistic 
>> quality...
>> 
>> it  may be shlock.....but we have to face up to it, and address it here.
> 
> Absolutely.
> I felt I implied that.


I felt you did....


> 
> Also - Sell to who?
> an advertising agency
> a magazine
> a newspaper
> a web site
> a book publisher
> a collector of art
> a collector of photography
> a client - doing on going business
> a customer - one time sale
> 
> and in what venue?
> Sell out of an art gallery?
> a photographic gallery?
> a summer art fair?
> a stock agency?
> an online web site of one sort or another?



How will it matter, if you wish to sell, would sell to anyone, and wish to 
be appeal to all comers.....?



steve


> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> 
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> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Critiques)
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