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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: price of art prints (was re: kyle's fine art)
From: Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:48:12 -03-30
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At 06:03 AM 12/03/02 -0600, you wrote:

>Switching back to photographer, stock images are also abundantly available
>for a fraction of the cost of hiring somebody to go out and take a new
>image.

This is not necessarily the case.  Most of my stock images are sold for 
what would be equal to shoot them on assignment. A lot has to do with 
exclusivity of the image also. If it is going to take a couple of thousand 
dollars to go on a shoot then it MAY be viable to buy stock DEPENDING on 
the use. I have seen stock fees in excess of $10,000.00 due to the nature 
of the use of the image. We are not talking about the generic material of 
royalty free discs.


>I think the last phrase in the previous sentence is the key.  People are
>willing to pay to have their problems solved.  If you don't have a problem,
>you're unlikely to pay to have it solved.  I don't have a problem with my
>wall space lacking a $6000 piece of art.  I'm unlikely to have a problem
>that needs a $1000+ piece of art, either.  Yet, I bought the services of a
>photographer for something between $1-2k a few years ago.  I had a problem.
>I wanted quality photos of my wedding.  He solved my problem.  Doesn't
>matter how many art prints Kyle is selling for $40, none of those were going
>to solve my problem.  :)

Life is more then problem solving. Problem solving is work and causes me 
stress.
Life is in the things that bring ENJOYMENT and pleasure. Typical human 
beings find that in ART!! ... be is visual art, music, performing art or 
even is search of the elusive perfect golf swing.

Art is not problem solving. Nothing as crude as simple commerce. It is not 
a commodity but a representation and reflection on our society and culture 
at a given time.

Before "Historians" (some of my best friends are historians :^) and modern 
documentary process, art was the document of culture. What we know about 
many cultures is through is art.

>Luckily, the 2nd law of thermodynamics guarantees that there will always be
>problems to solve.  :)

....sometimes they can't or are not worth solving.


Greg Locke
St. John's, Newfoundland
www.greglocke.com
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