[Leica] Experimenting with the iPhone
Mark Rabiner
mark at rabinergroup.com
Tue Sep 20 22:31:46 PDT 2016
Congrats Ken! That'll pay for a few carbon fiber titanium enhanced lens
caps! I never found what my final bids were on my deals like that but my
hunch is it was way less than an even grand!!
On 9/20/16 7:39 PM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>
> In FACT my most recent ³art print² sale
> did actually come from someone seeing a screen image on Facebook.
>
> It was
> one of my IR photographs with the M8;
> another camera which you¹ve expressed
> disdain for.
>
> ;~)
>
> As far as I¹m concerned collectors will purchase for
> what ever reasons;
> and not be limited by what they imagine the camera may
> have to do with it.
>
> I¹ve sold SX70 polaroid prints; both straight and
> manipulated.
> I¹ve sold 4x5 and 8x10 polaroid prints.
> I¹ve 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 ³look² 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 ³my collectors² that¹s what I love
> about photography no limits however small however large however
> ³alternative² it all speaks to me as long as the creator has something
> interesting to say - visually and with a serious interest in aesthetics.
>
>
> fond regards,
>
> George
>
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