[Leica] Sell your Instagram photo—for $90,000

[CJ andS]

What isn't rational is everyone uploading everything into these places.  At
least he is upfront about it.  I'd like to see a corporate accounting of
profits gleaned from this image fodder.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> Prince is at it again, selling the work of others (and this time it’s not
> even “work”).
>
> That a galleryful of poster-size enlargements of snaps purloined off
> Instagram, with fashionably nonsensical and self-consciously whimsical faux
> comments added, can be sold out at $90,000 per, is a comment on the, um,
> “artist’s” notoriety and a topic that I can’t even think rationally about.
>
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop_b
> <
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop_b
> >
>
>
> —howard
>
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