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    Record Breaking News:

    Andreas Gursky's 99 cent II, Diptych, from 2001 sold for $3.3 million last night at Sothebey's London

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    I've never seen it. It's difficult to imagine just how wonderful, magnificent, magical a photograph must be to be worth so much money!

    Mike

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    Quote Originally Posted by davidbram View Post
    Is that the digital print that has faded already?
    which one's that?
    You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    Originally Posted by davidbram
    Is that the digital print that has faded already?
    I should add - how can a digital print fade faster than a normal print when they are both produced on the same materials?
    You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees... - Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    At $3.3M it's not "fading", it's "evolving with time".
    Greg Lockrey

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    errr... I don't think it's fading (at least no more than any of that funny colour stuff does "real men only photograph in B&W")
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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    Quote Originally Posted by tim atherton View Post
    errr... I don't think it's fading (at least no more than any of that funny colour stuff does "real men only photograph in B&W")
    and on glass plates.
    Greg Lockrey

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    WOW...and to think I've had friends killed trying to produce photo stories that would net less than a grand in Newsweek...

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    You see, who says that you can't make a living as a fine Art photographer?

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    Re: Record Breaking News:

    Bought with OPM?
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