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Subject: [Leica] price of art prints (was re: kyle's fine art)
From: "kyle cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 17:05:16 -0800

>> 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




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