Doesn't take a whole lot of wishful thinking to turn a $400 print into $4,000
print. There's actually "zero" difference between the two when you think about it.
It's possible Kennan Ward & Tom Leeson could have photographed the same trio of
bears at the same time, but now I want to know why one of the images is
reversed? How did they end up mirrored?
I did a search for "Endangered Treasures: Our Arctic National Wildlife Refuge"
to see if I could find more information about the exhibition, perhaps a catalog.
What I found was a PDF of someone's dissertation:
https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980193/1/Roburn_PhD_F2015.pdf
The exhibition is mentioned in passing while discussing Subhankar Banerjee's
photographs and their place in communicating the story of the wildlife refuge.
The International Arts & Artists site lists 8 photographers for the exhibition,
but Professor Roburn's dissertation says there were 11 photographers. Might Tom
Leeson have been one of them?
That's also where I got the info that the exhibition was sponsored by the Sierra
Club that led me to search for "Sierra Club prints", which turned up the
"fineartamerica" site.
Searching within that site for polar bear photos turned up Tom Leeson's image.
I'm actually starting to get interested in this. Don't know whether it will
unleash my inner "Hercule Poirot" or my inner "Inspector Clouseau"?
On 12/19/2018 19:37:14, ann sanfedele wrote:
I think there was misattribution along the lone somewhere..
The woman who owened the photo originally, I have to say, could easily have been
taken for more money than she should ahve - but also
my still living friend may be misremembering the price.
ann
On 12/19/2018 4:54 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
That's interesting. It looks to me as though the Kennan and Leeson photos are
separate pictures of the same scene, taken at the same time with the
photographers next to each other, for example on the same expedition/photo
tour. Look at the tuft of grass in each one in relation to the bears - it
shows slightly different angles. Or it could be that the site I linked to had
wrongly attributed the photo.
On 19 Dec 2018, at 21:34, John <[email protected]> wrote:
I've searched & searched for Kenan Ward prints & don't see that image among
those he has available. Since the exhibition Bob's image appeared in was
sponsored by the Sierra Club, I searched for "Sierra Club Prints".
I found this one at "fineartamerica":
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/polar-bear-family-thomas-and-pat-leeson.html
But, it's not Kenan Ward, it's Thomas and Pat Leeson; uploaded June 15, 2014
Here's the image at Tom & Pat Leeson's website (it's in their stock image
portfolio):
https://leesonphoto.photoshelter.com/image?_bqG=84&_bqH=eJyLDKgqd45yz6xyrsgyK8_Pc3FNDK0wC04vjPK0MjS0sDI1sDI0AAIrz3iXYGfbgvycxCLtpNTEomI1sEi8o5.LbQmQHRrsGhTv6WIbClKdbpDv7Z5umGsSnK8W7.gcYlsM1JGcAQBw9iIy
https://tinyurl.com/anns-bears
I think it's a better match for the image Ann has, because it's not flipped
and because it has the little tufts of grass I can see in the image Ann
showed. Plus there are three images in a row & this "pose" is the middle of
the three. Looks like it might have been taken as early as 2000.
I think $400 - $500 for this print (as framed) is more likely than $4,000
unless Ann's friend bought it from a charity & most of the sale price went as
a donation.
On 12/19/2018 08:50:44, ann sanfedele wrote:
your google served you better than mine, Bob I went through many screens
of > Art Wolfe first , with the same inage search.
My friend who ended up with it is my age and starting to look to shedding
possesions that she was left and doesn't really care about.. she doesn't
like the photo... long complcated story I dont' need to get into, but when she
was discussing the shedding process she mentioned it.. "some kind of bears, I
think" she had been told he was a famous photographer..
ann
On 12/19/2018 1:29 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
I googled 'art wolfe polar bears' and scrolled through the images that came
back. I have a good memory for images, so when I saw that one, which appeared
because the photographer was in a joint show with Art Wolfe, it corresponded
in my head with the fragment that ann posted, so I compared them side by
side.
B
On 19 Dec 2018, at 03:04, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote:
Amazing. How on earth did you discover that?
Alan C
On 19-Dec-18 01:18 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
It looks like a reversed print of this one, by someone called Kennan Ward:
http://www.artsandartists.org/exhibitions/past-endangeredtreasures/
B
On 18 Dec 2018, at 23:02, ann sanfedele
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Everything about this says Art Wolfe but I haven't found the exact frame
on line. A friend of mine inherited this and probably would like to sell
it. I happened to be at a Christmas party at the home of the now deceased
original owner in 2006.. cropped down to the photo hanging on wall in her
living room.
She had purchased the work for $4,000 framed. I was told I knwo she had
it for years before 2006. At the moment the photo is stashed in her
benefactor's home all wrapped up.
Do you know this photo? Maybe I should just send the file to Wolfe :-)
https://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Stuff-to-show-PDML-for-various/n-vWHWf/i-TdGt4wN/L
thanks for any help
ann
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