Interesting photograph auction on eBay

[PViapiano]

I had fun perusing this list with some well known images:

http://search.liveauctions.ebay.com/search/search.dll?GetResult&ht=11&ctlgid=22725&ahid=13453&lc=1&isl=0&ccn=Art

[domenico Foschi]

Some well known images?
There are all of them!
At first i wondered if it was for real,...

[paulr]

that's pretty interesting. what is it ... a different auction format?
this could do for christie's and sothebey's what napster did for the record companies.

[Ted Harris]

eBay has been doing this for at least a year now. Christie's and Southebey's participate AFAIK. Phillips, the auction house listed is one of the world's large, well known houses if memory serves.

[David A. Goldfarb]

Sotheby's has some sort of formal partnership with eBay, if I'm not mistaken.

[PViapiano]

As mentioned above, eBay has been doing this with the major auction houses for quite a long time now...

Re: the auction above, I was surprised at the relatively low price estimates...many well-known images in small editions to possibly be had for under $10,000!

[Daniel Grenier]

What an amazing array of beautiful photographs - including one from our own (or is that our ex ?) Chris Jordan.

[paulr]

eBay has been doing this for at least a year now. Christie's and Southebey's participate AFAIK. Phillips, the auction house listed is one of the world's large, well known houses if memory serves.

how interesting. i guess it makes sense ... those guys are smart enough to jump on new opportunities.

now if i get high enough bids on my elvis lava lamp and inside-the-egg egg scrambler, i can turn those dollars around for a Paul Strand print.

[Bill_1856]

That Paul Strand print of the Taos Church is a bargain. Just seeing the negative of it was what turned Ansel Adams from music to photography.

[Brian Ellis]

Just think - in his entire life Edward Weston probably didn't make as much money as his nude will likely sell for.