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Nov 11, 2011 08:00 |  #1

I tell people that there's no big money in photography. I guess I'm wrong.

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I also guess it's not a no-no to split the image with the horizon or take a picture with no subject to engage the eye.

What have I been doing with my life???


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Nov 11, 2011 08:10 |  #2

Don't really understand what's so great about it, maybe how it is printed.

One of the six prints is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I'll go check it out next year


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Nov 11, 2011 09:02 |  #3

Not so compelling to me...


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Nov 11, 2011 09:25 |  #4

Some one has WAY too much money out there.


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Nov 11, 2011 09:25 |  #5

I would dare someone to post this in the Critique Corner. LOL
I can see the comments already.


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Nov 11, 2011 09:53 |  #6

You guys just don't get it. (said in my best snobby voice lol)


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Nov 11, 2011 09:55 |  #7

There's a discussion I started yesterday about it here: https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1113394


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Nov 11, 2011 10:21 |  #8

I would sure like to know who bought it so I could send them a link to my portfolio!


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Nov 11, 2011 10:47 as a reply to  @ irishman's post |  #9

Damn! And ours never sell for more than half that much!




  
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Nov 11, 2011 10:53 |  #10

edman22 wrote in post #13385656 (external link)
You guys just don't get it. (said in my best snobby voice lol)

I totally don't get it. If this print alone is 4.3 mil, I have at least $1,000,000,000 with of pictures on my PC right now.


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Nov 11, 2011 10:54 |  #11

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I totally don't get it. If this print alone is 4.3 mil, I have at least $1,000,000,000 with of pictures on my PC right now.

So, your problem is not photography, it's marketing.




  
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Nov 11, 2011 10:57 |  #12

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So, your problem is not photography, it's marketing.

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner...

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Nov 11, 2011 11:14 |  #13

although I don't care much for this print I think Gursky's work is pretty cool sometimes. The size and detail are just incredible. I think he shoots with large formats and get some insane detail into these shots.

Word is the works are much more powerful in person...but still....4.3 mil? cmon..


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Nov 11, 2011 11:19 |  #14

20droger wrote in post #13385953 (external link)
So, your problem is not photography, it's marketing.

I guess so. I have a hard drive full of potential millions.


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Nov 11, 2011 11:20 |  #15

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I guess so. I have a hard drive full of potential millions.

Don't we all!




  
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