[Leica] Experimenting with the iPhone

[Ken Carney]

My largest print sale was an 11x14 b&w silver print, for $1,000.  I felt 
pretty good about it, almost like a vindication of my time and cost 
learning photography.  That was in retrospect, as I actually don't 
remember that much of the event.  it was a sale at a charity auction 
with an open bar, toward the end of the auction.  The purchaser is a 
very well-known art collector, and when it was hammered down she 
collapsed and was carried out.  I presume emotions overcame her after 
scoring a purchase like that.

Ken


On 9/20/2016 3:41 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
>> On Sep 20, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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>> Well I actually never have either old a print from the Lug Gallery or a
>> Facebook gallery. But my body of work grows as I get older and I ain't dead
>> yet.   I have in my life sold prints to collectors and had shows in
>> galleries.
> Yes. I too have sold prints to collectors; had one man shows in galleries; participated in group shows; and curated and judged museum shows.
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> In FACT my most recent “art print” sale did actually come from someone seeing a screen image on Facebook.
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> It was one of my IR photographs with the M8;
> another camera which you’ve expressed disdain for.
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> ;~)
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> As far as I’m concerned collectors will purchase for what ever reasons;
> and not be limited by what they imagine the camera may have to do with it.
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> I’ve sold SX70 polaroid prints; both straight and manipulated.
> I’ve sold 4x5 and 8x10 polaroid prints.
> I’ve sold silver prints, inkjet prints, RC prints, silkscreen prints, stone litho prints, prints from engraved metal and wood blocks; mono prints; and I have no doubt if someone loved an image of mine made with an iPhone that I could produce a gorgeous print from the file. It will of course have the “look” of the tools used in the making; just like all the technologies which have preceded the current technology: whether ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, collodion prints, tintypes, the 1960s prints from extremely grainy 35 mm negatives which many loved and bought, the gorgeous  12x20 contact print that currently hangs in my living room, and two other living rooms of “my collectors”… that’s what I love about photography… no limits… however small… however large… however “alternative”… it all speaks to me… as long as the creator has something interesting to say - visually and with a serious interest in aesthetics.
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> fond regards,
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> George
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