[LRflex] Re: Request for advice
- From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:14:52 +0100
Looks like a Spad to me, is it?
Ph
Le 14 mars 10 à 20:12, David Scollard a écrit :
>
> Charlie, I've spent a lot of time pondering this, but completely
> without
> success - what is the significance of the rather cryptic diagram
> that you
> always append at the end of your letters, just below and to the
> right of
> your signature, and above the aphorism by von Braun? If it's not
> too secret
> to share, a deciphering would be greatly appreciated.
>
> best, David Scollard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Falke" <chfalke@xxxxxxx>
> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 9:13 AM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Request for advice
>
>
> On 3/14/2010 10:00 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>> Unless one is very famous already, I cannot fathom why a limited
>> edition
>> would make your prints more valuable.
>> Perhaps you are very famous, but I wasn't aware of that.
>>
>> I was just looking at some 1940-50's photography for sale here in New
>> Orleans yesterday, and though some prints were obviously from scanned
>> negatives, and newly printed by modern means, they had other prints
>> from
>> the
>> negatives priced much higher. These were still making revenue for
>> the
>> photographer's family.
>>
>> I'm not so sure how well the "real" prints do against the others,
>> but,
>> once
>> you cut up the negative, that's it for "original prints." You
>> just have
>> to
>> ask yourself if you are famous enough or productive enough to limit
>> your
>> editions.
>>
>> I imagine that among photographers who sell prints there are some
>> shots
>> that
>> sell over and over, despite the number sold, despite the price. "Moon
>> over..." comes to mind. You can buy a print of that shot today in "A
>> Gallery for Fine Photography," just ten blocks from where I sit. I
>> forgot
>> his asking price, but hey, No one cut up that negative, Thank God.
>>
> Sonny,
> Prints are available from Ansel's negatives from 24 of his
> negatives,
> made in 8x10 size by enlargement from the original negatives. These
> are printed by a student of his that is familiar with the extensive
> dodging and burning that were essential to Adams' work. A straight
> print from one of his negatives typically looks pretty boring. There
> is an example of this using "Clearing Winter Storm" in later editions
> of his book "The Print" which is quite an eye opener. It's a little
> ironic in context that Group f/64 called it "Straight
> Photography". :-)
> The limit to the number is that he agreed to stop making any more
> at one point, and obviously can't change his mind now. It doesn't
> matter
> that the negative still exists, because nobody would know how to
> make a
> print from it like he did, and it wouldn't have his signature on it.
> According to the "A Gallery for fine Photography" web site, their
> price varies from $5000 to $175,000. Large prints are more. I saw
> a 16X20 at the gallery in Yosemite in the 80s that they wanted around
> 2 something for, IIRC. The record was $609,000, in 2006.
>
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