Digital BW, The Print

mh@... wrote:

> The art world is a world, it has it's members and it's history. The
> people that establish the value (especially monetarily) are those
> people. It is the same as any other group. The janitor that happens to
> glance at few people's stiches doesn't get to decide which surgeon is
> the best, the other surgeons do! The ones who deal with it every day.

So what you are saying is that the 'French Academy' artists who literally ripped the early Impressionists'
paintings off the gallery walls were correct?

I do not think that the cleaning person's opinion is any less valid then the 'experts', who set the
prices...Think of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' if you want a classic rebuke to what you wrote.  :- )

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC




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