Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I listen often to Segovia and Casals play on Bach on scratchy mono and love it. Bach was supposed to have been a master Organist but there was no electricity to power the audio recorders. I have a scratchy mono of Chopin playing piano I think; but we're talking about conducting a score. Not the gymnastics of being a virtuoso. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:43:26 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] more on the Earl Brooks vs. AA negatives > > You have dashed my hopes, Mark :). I thought that if one of my > digital prints sold for, say, $25 I could get 5X that for a silver print > :). Maybe more framed :). Of course, first I have to get one of my > digital prints to sell for anything other than a donation to a charity > auction (there my prints have sold for as much as $500, where there was > an open bar and good whiskey and designated drivers, a lesson learned by > me where I have bought jewelry for my wife and gotten the look the next > morning....). I can somewhat see reprints of the EW negs, since those > were contact prints where there is not a lot of manipulation available. > An AA print, I don't know. The thing AA reprints have is that so many > of them were done by his assistants anyway. Re music, wouldn't it be > great to somehow hear Bach playing the Goldberg Variations to compare to > Glen Gould? Dream on. I have both sets of the Schnabel recordings of > the Beethoven 32 sonatas and they trump any later recordings IMHO. I > wonder how L.V.'s would have fared? > > Ken > > On 8/24/2010 9:50 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> You are assuming Ken that this bears some relevance to the way the fine >> art >> gallery market is structured but Norsigian seems to have a faint idea of >> it. >> That was evident weeks ago. He probably looked up how things are >> conducted >> on the internet which is way different from the traditional gallery scene >> and traditional existing gallery market. He was painting walls before he >> came upon this cache of so called Adams negs. >> But if you do some searching limiting your search to legitimate galleries >> which are real buildings with and have more than an internet address but a >> street address you've find the discrepancy between inkjet pricing and >> gelatin silver print pricing is often minimal with many of the best >> people. >> (the ones who call their Mom's weekly.) >> I had the quote about the negative is the score and the print the >> performance on my desk a few weeks ago I have this in mine often but also >> have in the back in my mind that in classical music the definitive >> recording >> to get of most modern serious pieces of music is not the one with the >> composer of the score conducting. Its almost always someone else. And >> quite >> a few composers are not well thought of as interpreters of their own work. >> This might have minimal bearing on the photography market. As in Graphics >> the idea of someone else taking over your plates or negs and doing a run >> after your dead is very very rare to medium rare. I cant think of any >> other >> exceptions than Edward Weston and his sons. >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:14:10 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] more on the Earl Brooks vs AA negatives >>> >>> Interesting that a "digital" 16x20 print (inkjet?) is $1,500, but a >>> "silver gelatin darkroom print" is $7,500. Presumably both unsigned >>> :). Now I'm sorry I closed the darkroom. >>> >>> Ken Carney >>> >>> On 8/24/2010 3:16 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: >>>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/ansel-adams-trust-sues-ov_n_69275 >>>> 0. >>>> html> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George Lottermoser >>>> george at imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com >>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information