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by Ron Day on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:04 pm
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Andreas Gursky's 'Rhine II' sold for $4.3 million at Christie’s.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ardry.html
 

by KBatchelor on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:22 pm
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That sold for 4.3mil?

There is hope for us all yet.
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:26 pm
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KBatchelor wrote:That sold for 4.3mil?

There is hope for us all yet.
I had the opposite reaction. I had to be talked off the ledge after seeing this last week!
 

by Anthony Medici on Mon Nov 14, 2011 2:59 pm
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I guess marketing is everything.
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by Tim Zurowski on Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:11 pm
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Geez . . . . I've been throwing out the wrong images :shock:
 

by Greg Basco on Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:18 pm
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The investment in the $25 bubble level really paid off for the guy. I'm going to have to work on getting my horizons as straight as he does -- seems to be a huge selling point :-)

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by DMcLarty on Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:27 pm
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"....But the digitally altered .... He even turned to computer trickery to remove any intrusive features – dog walkers, cyclists, a factory building – until it was bleak enough to satisfy him."

and we worry about a stick, leaf, or branch...I will be checking up on my cloning abilities in PS :)
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by Connor Stefanison on Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:51 pm
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I've never sold a print in my life. Now i see what i'm doing wrong!
 

by DChan on Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:53 pm
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Connor Stefanison wrote:I've never sold a print in my life. Now i see what i'm doing wrong!
Yup...you tried too hard :lol:
 

by swamp_rattler on Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:40 pm
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I think that was shot with an iPhone 3GS.
 

by Neil Fitzgerald on Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:25 pm
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must be a joke.
 

by George DeCamp on Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:51 pm
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I must have deleted a trillion dollars in sales already....sigh. :wink:
 

by OntPhoto on Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:36 pm
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I saw that a few days ago. Usually such prices are reserved for paintings and not photographs. I'm happy for the artist, that he's managed a level of recognition as to command such commercial value for his work. If we doodled on a restaurant napkin, nothing more would be thought of it. If Picasso doodled on a napkin, many would be dumpster diving to retrieve it. Could be worth hundreds of thousands or perhaps more. Not in any way trying to denigrate anyones work but only stating the obvious, the value of a work of art is not so much the content but the name behind it.

A 1967 acrylic on canvas by American painter Barnett Newman sold for $1.8 million. I recall the big controversy when the National Art Gallery announced its purchase.

http://popartmachine.com/artwork/2017-N ... -print.jpg


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by DaveC on Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:40 pm
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I think I will take a photograph of the photograph and sell it for $8 million.
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by walkinman on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:13 am
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Hey Folks,

Better yet, for 10% of that price, you can buy this:

Cheers

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by DChan on Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:35 am
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Neil Fitzgerald wrote:must be a joke.
His photograph titled 99cents sold for "$3,346,456 on February 2007, Sotheby's London auction. A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby's in May 2006."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mo ... hotographs

Here's the photograph in case you haven't seen it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:99_ce ... by%27s.jpg
 

by KBatchelor on Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:12 am
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ok... if this is what it takes to make it big.... then I just want to be small time. Holy cow.
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by Colin Inman on Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:28 pm
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I wanted to capture a desolate but accurate image... Digitally manipulated until it is as bleak enough to satisfy me...

Now who's going to open the bidding
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by KBatchelor on Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:38 pm
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Are you sure you weren't photographing North Dakota in Februrary?
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by kferris on Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:51 pm
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I want to look through his trash. Could be some gems in there.
 

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