Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not quite. Fine Art is art that rich people collect, and poor people rob, so that they can fence it to middlemen who know that they can find a buyer for it. The first large auction house started selling photos in the early 1970s, but photos had been collected for years in families, and certain collections were regarded as very fine, just as certain photographers were regarded as above the common or garden shutter pressers. People started to pay a little more for these photographers' work and their interesting, glamorous, adventurous or tragic lifestyles. This bigging up attracted both the interest of art entrepreneurs and critics and media coverage expanded the market exponentially. The constant media exposure and the vested interest of new art pushers ensured the persistent redefining of the judgement criteria of an evolving market by a coterie of people who have an interest in profiting from a beautiful and inventive artistic medium. Oh look, here is someone new and wonderful doing new and wonderful things, don't caught out and show your ignorance of their genius, be wise and buy their stuff now!! It echoes the approach to the painting market. What are you at, Mr Basquiat? Your suggestive dichotomy More frontal lobotomy To me?? Just tat. Douglas On 27/05/2021 05:14, Doug Herr via LUG wrote: > My definition - which I expect is not widely accepted - is photography > that has to be explained to be understood. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/> > > >> On May 26, 2021, at 6:58 PM, Stasys Petravicius via LUG <lug at >> leica-users.org> wrote: >> >> Stasys Petravicius >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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