Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> and at last, I'm willing to think that prices for your prints are >> deliberately cheap, why ? there are two reasons ... one, the important one, is that i can make more. watching linda part with selling her work as a painter makes me realize that photographers, unlike other artists, don't suffer from the post partem depression that comes from seeing a piece that you worked hard on for a long time go away forever. as long as i have the negative, i can keep printing shots of jennyfur until my enlarger lens blows out. secondly, i printed a lot of these at once. if someone called and said "i want a print of some negative that's probably in a pile somewhere in your house" and i had to go looking for it, i'd charge more. so it's an economy of effort. in conjunction with thsoe there are tertiary reasons, one, being that i sell them for what i think they're worth, rather than what people may pay. i'm not mary ellen mark, this is just a picture of one of my friends in an alley, i like it and i want to share it -- and from a purely philosophical standpoint, i'm a big fan of the Cheap Art Movement. when we're out at first friday and i see something priced low i like to buy it to encourage the behavior. art doesn't have to be expensive -- affordable art = available art = art in every home = a more art aware culture. that's my .02 anyway. feel free to flame away, kc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html