Sorry if I've disappointed you .. didn't mean too , honest..otay?
Jim,
Maybe I should go back and re-read what I wrote, but rest assured you have not offended or angered me in any way.
Sorry if I made you think so. I am only angered by Lik.
But it is not a case of a different business model. First, with the number of galleries Lik owns and the amount of work he has sold, there would have to be a secondary market and over that, he would have zero control. He has no secondary market, except maybe ebay, because the art world absolutely does not recognize him.
I went looking on the internet for an older story about Lik representing someone else\u2019s photograph on his web site, as his own. I didn\u2019t find that story, but I did find another one I didn\u2019t know about. Here\u2019s the link:
That makes TWO that I know about and before today, I never looked. I stumbled on the first story I mentioned. Real artists don\u2019t \u201caccidentally\u201d put the work of other photographers on their web sites.
You might also find this first hand story about working with/for Lik.
The definition of fine art photography is pretty broad and always open to interpretation, so the line is pretty wide and very fuzzy to boot. But Lik is so far from the line, he can\u03357;t see it with Hubble.
David Kachel
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