On 11-05-20 3:41 AM, Bob W wrote:
I've never quite understood why Steichen's murky pictures are so well-
regarded, had I
taken them I would never have bothered to waste a sheet of paper or my
time and chemicals
printing them.
Cindy Sherman is another example of someone whose fame is beyond me -
the example shown on
this site is a very ordinary snapshot.
I can to some extent understand the prices for Atget, le Gray and de
Pranguey, as they
were pioneers, but some of the others!
Steichen and Sherman are also pioneers.
B
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-15-most-expensive-pictures-ever-
taken
Clearly the name attached to the shot, not the content, is what sets
the price.
Kirk Tuck agrees with Bob in this blog entry:
"I think Cindy Sherman's work represented the vanguard of work that
pried open the museum market and made collectors and curators consider
photography as a real and bonafide part of the art world and all that
entails. The spoils go to the pioneers." [...]
"It's not important that we all own a Cindy Sherman but it is important
for art in general and photography in particular that our culture is
still able to celebrate expression and art as having value. That's the
real meaning of the auctioned Cindy Sherman photo."
http://goo.gl/Nb3D9
http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2011/05/sigma-cindy-sherman-and-pricing-models.html
-bmw
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