Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Unfortunately, I am a value investor, not a momentum investor, so your logic fails to move me one bit! ?? Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:47 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Yes I like a lot of the prints, Jayanand, but, as to prices, with the > inflation stag about to roar, the prices will go up until the artist > falls out of fashion. However, trying to persuade my wife that such an > enjoyable investment for me should make economic sense for her, is a > difficult task! Who's going to go out of fashion? Hard to know. Most > photographers have a good back story that only embellishes their > reputation - like Winogrand. If they are dead, so much the better, as > they can't do anything that might scare off the Woke market segment. > > On Americana photography, aside from the Winogrand print I mentioned, I > also like the Kansas City, 1965 image by Lee Friedlander with the bull > statue looking right with the plane overhead and going left. It was > taken here > > https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1011146,-94.590445,3a,75y,285.5h,86.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLJahW30HWLsKoXzLQhQpRA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 > on 11th St. and it appears the bull was taken down and moved to a nearby > park in 2002. You can see the empty plinth in the distance. > > Now if you could persuade the city authorities to put a statue of > Friedlander up on top of it, it would his print prices up... > > Douglas > > On 08/07/2021 10:42, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > > I have a copy of the reissued version of the HCB book, purchased directly > > from Steidl, which, very strangely, as I found out after I received it, > is > > a state of the art photocopy of the original. Very weird, never seen > > anything like that being pulled off before. > > > > The prints are nice, but the prices being bid are a bit too rich for my > > blood. With the fine art market where it is today, it is better to stay > > away, or pick up prints that we personally like by relative unknowns. > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:49 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > >> Thanks Douglas. > >> > >> If I were to pick something, I think I?d go for the original historic > >> print in French of HCB?s The decisive moment, i.e. Images ? la Sauvette. > >> Just its cover is and invitation and worth having on a wall ;-) > >> > >> Amities > >> > >> Philippe > >> > >> > >> > >>> Le 8 juil. 2021 ? 01:41, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > >>> > >>> Somebody on this list might have their interest piqued by a couple of > >> items in this auction. The stuff comes from a good home. > >>> Personally, I rather like the Staten Island Ferry shot by Garry > >> Winogrand, but others might like a Leica M6 or one of the other cameras > on > >> the list. > >>> > >> > https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/in-the-studio-of-paolo-roversi?locale=en > >>> Douglas > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information