[Leica] Photo awards etc

[Don Dory]

Buying at four your personal enlightenment is something most of us can do
successfully.   Hopefully we know what inspires us or caused internal
contemplation or motivation.   Buying art as an investment is another
task.   Basically you are trying to predict what people will value in the
future; which is difficult for most of us.   Buying a Warhol now seems
smart but who was snapping them up 40 years ago?

I recommend going to museums and galleries for a long look at past
masters.   Then go out to art fairs and small intimate shops that display
new artists and acquire those images that work for you.   Hopefully you
will help a starving artist not starve today.  Maybe in twenty years your
heirs and assigns will be on the antiques roadshow crying in amazement at
how much this piece is now worth.

Oh, buying a well printed book with images from an artist you admire or a
genre that moves you works pretty well when the museum's are all locked
down.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, 6:17 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Everybody has a personal opinion about what is a good photograph, but,
> sadly, the only way to get yourself enshrined in the pantheon of "The
> Great Photographers" is to have someone pay lots of money for your images.
>
> Is Putin's poodle Dmitry Medvedev a great photographer? Well, someone
> paid $1.7 million for one of his, but the disqualifier is the "someone"
> is an oligarch friend of his, so Dmitry has to go through a few more
> hoops before he gets any credibility, if ever.
>
> Anyway, I used to go to a few photographic auctions in the past so still
> get notifications as the auction houses who live in hope that I might
> win the lottery (mind you, I do live in hope too). Here's a link to a
> current one below, and it's interesting to see the prices of some famous
> photographs. Of course, I'm aware that art and photographic art is just
> a way of storing money outside of other markets, and I expect the prices
> at this auction and many others to come to be compressed by the current
> plague, lack of liquidity, and fear.
>
> So, if you're feeling brave, and maybe have just won the lottery, you
> could make a killing. In any case, you'll have a chance to have a look
> at some interesting images.
>
> https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/photographs-2?locale=en
>
> Tell us what your favourite is.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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