Hi, a press photographer I know was given (given!) a stack of Larry Burrows prints that he found in a cupboard in a press room.
For an investment in photographs, journalism is likely to be your best long-term bet. Look at the record - very few of the greats in photography are trying to be artists. Most of them are journalists. The overwhelming majority of photographers who try to create 'art' are forgotten very quickly. -- Cheers, Bob Saturday, January 3, 2004, 2:18:02 PM, you wrote: > Hi Frank ... > A couple of years ago I visited a nearby gallery that had an exhibit of WES prints, > and there were quite a number of prints "in the bins" > that were also for sale. Relatively inexpensive works of art ... amazing print > quality. > I highly recommend that everyone interested in photography hie thee to a gallery and > see the great silver prints made by these masters and > their printers. > shel > frank theriault wrote: >> I was lucky enough to see a couple of Elliott Erwitt's works when a Magnum >> 50 retrospective road show hit one of Toronto's galleries in the spring. It >> was awe inspiring. They had prints of his shot of Kruschev (sp?) and Nixon >> and the famous seagull on the lampost with the jet in the background. I >> love that one! >> >> As an aside, it amazes me how much (or rather, how little) prints by some of >> these modern masters go for. I took a peek at the pricebook while at the >> Magnum show. Most were in the $2000 to $3000 US range, including iconic >> prints such as "Death of a Loyalist Soldier" and the like. I know I posted >> this before, but the most expensive was Mr. "I turn my back on photography, >> it's not a real art form" Cartier-Bresson, who despite his position, sees >> fit to ask $8000 a print for the kid with the wine bottles print. In fact, >> I read a recent interview of him, where he became quite agitated when asked >> about that photograph, and almost yelled words to the effect: "I hate that >> photograph". But, he'll glady accept money or it, apparently <g>. >> >> I know, I know, HCB is a senile old man, it doesn't negate his earlier body >> of work, but it's hard to hear one's heros say such things. >> >> Anyway, here's my point: It amazes me that we could buy authorized 8x10 >> prints of some of the best known photographs ever taken, for such a small >> amount of money. In what other of the visual arts would this be possible?
