[Leica] Sothebys photo auction

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Douglas,
Unfortunately, I am a value investor, not a momentum investor, so your
logic fails to move me one bit! 😉😎

Cheers
Jayanand


On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:47 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Yes I like a lot of the prints, Jayanand, but, as to prices, with the
> inflation stag about to roar, the prices will go up until the artist
> falls out of fashion. However, trying to persuade my wife that such an
> enjoyable investment for me should make economic sense for her, is a
> difficult task! Who's going to go out of fashion? Hard to know. Most
> photographers have a good back story that only embellishes their
> reputation - like Winogrand. If they are dead, so much the better, as
> they can't do anything that might scare off the Woke market segment.
>
> On Americana photography, aside from the Winogrand print I mentioned, I
> also like the Kansas City, 1965 image by  Lee Friedlander with the bull
> statue looking right with the plane overhead and going left. It was
> taken here
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1011146,-94.590445,3a,75y,285.5h,86.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLJahW30HWLsKoXzLQhQpRA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
> on 11th St. and it appears the bull was taken down and moved to a nearby
> park in 2002. You can see the empty plinth in the distance.
>
> Now if you could persuade the city authorities to put a statue of
> Friedlander up on top of it, it would his print prices up...
>
> Douglas
>
> On 08/07/2021 10:42, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > I have a copy of the reissued version of the HCB book, purchased directly
> > from Steidl, which, very strangely, as I found out after I received it,
> is
> > a state of the art photocopy of the original. Very weird, never seen
> > anything like that being pulled off before.
> >
> > The prints are nice, but the prices being bid are a bit too rich for my
> > blood. With the fine art market where it is today, it is better to stay
> > away, or pick up prints that we personally like by relative unknowns.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:49 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Douglas.
> >>
> >> If I were to pick something, I think I’d go for the original historic
> >> print in French of HCB’s The decisive moment, i.e. Images à la Sauvette.
> >> Just its cover is and invitation and worth having on a wall ;-)
> >>
> >> Amities
> >>
> >> Philippe
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Le 8 juil. 2021 à 01:41, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Somebody on this list might have their interest piqued by a couple of
> >> items in this auction. The stuff comes from a good home.
> >>> Personally, I rather like the Staten Island Ferry shot by Garry
> >> Winogrand, but others might like a Leica M6 or one of the other cameras
> on
> >> the list.
> >>>
> >>
> https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/in-the-studio-of-paolo-roversi?locale=en
> >>> Douglas
> >>>
> >>>
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