Digital BW, The Print

I remember back in the late 70's early 80's all my friends in art school were saying that the era of paper photo was just about done. And, that video was rapidly in the process of replacing it all, being that prints were so 19th century and video so immediate. At one time I even believed it myself. Now, with the web at our fingertips, video art looks so quaint and even historic, but still prints are as collected as ever. Go figure.

The really odd thing to me is how Gursky has made over 9 million bucks from 4 copies of one type C print, and one even sold by itself for 3.3 million US. Now that's marketing. That C print even beat out Steichen. Course it was bigger .....



http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-most-expensive-photographs-ever-sold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gursky

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