that is a fantastic website !
about halfway down there is a link to an animated timeline
https://www.understandingduchamp.com/index.html
and the bride stripped by her bachelors, bare explanation ..
great stuff !
that is a fantastic website !
about halfway down there is a link to an animated timeline
https://www.understandingduchamp.com/index.html
and the bride stripped by her bachelors, bare explanation ..
great stuff !
Extreme/incessant promotion, geographic location, politics, luck.
The luck of the well-prepared.
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Sometimes I think the two main attributes for selling photographs for big bucks are print size and scarcity, as in, make it big, make only a few. I also agree with previous posts about the importance of the fine art market internal network. Say you are rich and want some big bold beautiful pictures for your walls, you may not care if they are paintings, prints or photographs but to find them you go shopping in the part of town where the fine art dealers hang out. They take you round their galleries and talk about pictures, they find out how much you want to spend, they make enquiries and keep in touch. Rich people like being pursued by hungry dealers
The point is that dealers need a supply of pictures, and quite possibly they deal mostly not with the artist but with the artist's agent and/or manager. So perhaps some of the people who are successful selling big-buck prints are those with the better agents and managers.
It's self-comforting to think that one's failure has been at the hands of gatekeepers and anonymous snobs, but the brutal fact is that he that tooteth not his own horn, that same horn it shall not be tooted.
Thanks, but I'd rather just watch:
Large format: http://flickr.com/michaeldarnton
Mostly 35mm: http://flickr.com/mdarnton
You want digital, color, etc?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stradofear
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
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