Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/27

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Subject: [Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:22:53 -0500

Frank I'm not quite absorbing this could you maybe re phrase it maybe its me
I've been up all night time to hit the hay.  ?


On 1/27/13 8:35 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> There is perhaps a worldwide levelling of prices???
> The USA used to have -much- higher prices for art, and much lower prices 
> for
> consumer durables, like cars and cameras, than here in the UK.
> Internet "knowledge" causes these sort of things to equalise.
> FD
> 
> 
> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 12:42
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing
>> 
>> With print prices off his thing ranging from $19.95 to $395 nothing is 
>> being
>> said.? What would $19.95 buy? Its meaningless. Its just a nod to the
>> internet way of photo commerce in which everything is a dime a dozen. A
>> person who grew up with the galleries before the internet as he did knows
>> that a photographers first show his prints go for a least a couple of
>> hundred bucks. Now its 20 maybe!?
>> We take off a decimal point because of what? Volume?!? The internet? Its
>> nonsense and he should have enough sense to not support the internet 
>> lowest
>> common denominator of demeaning photography by people who are not ever
>> intending to be serious about it but simply want to justify a hobby
>> involving huge expenditures.
>> These kinds of people certainly ruined stock we'd hate to see them ruin 
>> the
>> serious gallery photo art market it may happen with people like this who
>> should know better seemingly supporting them.
>> 20 dollars a print is what you pay for a wedding blowup from a schlock
>> wedding photographer. Not anything from somebody resembling an artist
>> aspiring or otherwise.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/27/13 6:18 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I like Michael Johnston / Brooks Jensen's model. Not that I have made 
>>> much
>>> money at all, but I also run special print sales from time to time - $18
>>> for a 8.5x11" type of deal.
>>> 
>>> Get the work out to be seen is my motto.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
>>> <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/01/the-top-m
>>>> od
>>>> el-for-print-sales.html
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jayanand
>>>> 
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