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Whoa.
http://www.popphoto.com/news/2011/05...ever-photograp
Christie's had a bumper night, tallying more than $300 million in sales. While not the priciest item up for auction that day, Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #96" from 1981 passed all records for photography, and was sold for $3.89 million.
I always had a suspicion that photography was an easy way to easy money. Now I know it is. If I just had a better camera...
...Mike
Obscene. I never figured out what the appeal of her work was in the first place. Wonder what they're adding to the drinking water in that part of the world. Probably an old-style C-print anyway that will fade just as fast as these conspicuous consumption fads do.
From the looks of it, your camera is TOO good!
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Originally Posted by Mike Anderson
I wish that, just once, the photo that sets the record would make me go "wow!" rather than "huh?".
Rick "who would like to 'get it', but never seems to" Denney
New York dealers. New York. We'd better ask Paul and Frank what's up.Quote:
buyer was New York dealer Philippe Segalot, and the underbidder was Per Skarstedt, also a New York dealer.
Cindy's in her darkroom as we speak, madly cranking out a whole bunch more of these babies.
I did a quick search on the Internet to have a look at the print, and I overlooked it several times during the search because I thought it was a pop-up Google ad. Frankly, I am very skeptical about these kinds of sales. It's very hard for me to believe that a NYC condo did not change hands with it.
I don't get it. I just don't get it.
Whatever - it's not my money. Thankfully!
Just one more reason we need to set aside some of money to erect a guillotine on
Wall Street. Where is Robspierre when we need him? While everyone else is getting their job outsourced to some sweatshop in East Balookistan, the guys writing the pink
slips seem to have wheelbarrows of money to flagrantly waste on this kind of stuff.
They probably don't pay taxes either.