Frankly, this is so far out of the ordinary that I have a hard time believing there isn't a little market manipulation at play.
Say I'm a wealthy individual who already owns a lot of fine art photography. I approach a fine art photographer with a "deal". I tell him that I'm willing to offer him the headline-grabbing price of $x million for one of his images. This puts the photographer at the top of the fine art photography food chain and instantly makes Lik's other photographs command higher prices in the collector's market. On the other hand, a headline grabbing price like that for a photograph is like the "rising tide that lifts all ships". As a photography collector, such news probably increases the value of much of the rest of my collection. All I ask Lik in return for this headline grabbing sale price, is a rebate of about 75-80% of the published selling price. On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Dec 2014, at 07:33, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bob W wrote: >> >>> My house looks like a work of modern art since yesterday morning when >>> the kitchen ceiling fell down. Perhaps Nick Serota would like to buy >>> it. >> >> Doesn't that make your kitchen an 'installation'? >> >> Best of luck with the ceiling; I had a bedroom ceiling come down in 2009 and >> that turned from a repair into an entire house rebuild; a five year mission >> where nobody wanted to go. > > Thanks - I hope it doesn't come to that. > > B > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
