Mel Winner

You are being facetious....yes/no?

Mel Winner

You are being facetious....yes,no? I do not see it.

Mel Winner

Who ever may have paid that obscene amount of money for that picture most of us would delete, has a bad sense of humor.

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

I did a search on Andreas Gursky. Here is one of his better works as an attachment.
He evidently is the contemporary Ansel Adams of Germany. Once you are famous on that level, people will buy your work as an investment. Also, the Rhine is to Germany as the Mississippi is to the US. You know how local scenes will sell.
Personally, I don't like the Rhine photo either.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

(?) Thanks Guessman, I was hoping for your opinion.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

I ate one that looked like Groucho Marx several years ago, before I learned about Ebay.quote=johnnyg67]Anyone remember the Pretzel that sold for $10,000.00 on ebay because it looked like the virgin Mary? There are people out there with way too much money for the size of their brains. Best I can figure I've probably eaten at least $1,000.000.00 worth of Pretzels. Now I look at everyone before I bite! :-)[/quote]

MarkDG

I don't know you, and I have no idea what your background is in photography (and I am in no way questioning your artistic abilities), but would you still have said that had you not known that photo sold for 4.3 MILLION dollars? For that matter, would you have ever noticed it had it been grouped in with the photos on this site?

shadow1284 Loc: Mid-West Michigan

You probably are, but are too modest to admit it.

Fifty-Fifty Loc: Arkansas

Its simple folks...it was bought by a drug cartel who will insure it for 5 or 6 million then mysteriously it will be destroyed in a fire or stolen...insurance pays off bamo you made money and laundered the initial 4.3 mill

pdwoodswood Loc: Lewisville, NC

to ride; reading this, I am now a believer in parallel universe theory...

rone Loc: Ohio

Here it is, my latest work of art!
Every thing that has been said in this topic, could be said about it. I just hope the $4.3 mil applies also. I am retired & on fixed income. I could use the cash to buy more photo equipment.

Spot with feeling!

tinosa Loc: Grand Rapids Michigan

Not a penny over $4 mil !



:-D

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

I think your spot has just a tad too much feeling. Can you make it a little more minimalist? :-P

rone Loc: Ohio

I'll try, but it is hard to do with him.

Spot & son


Spot with new hair style


New age spot

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

We only see a 72 dpi screen image. We cannot really judge it untill we stand in front of the original. There may be something to the size, for instance if it is very large the effect will totally change, like looking a small Jackson Pollack reproduction cannot prepare you for seeing a real one in musem. The printing technique may be very high end with fantastic detail, we don't know. I always though it was ridiculous the Baltimore Museum of Art paid $750,000 for an Andy Warhol print "The Last Supper" (I live in Baltimore). It was just a photo of Da Vinci's original. Warhol didn't even paint it himself. However, when I saw the actual piece in the museum I was really impressed. It was rather stunning. It was very large, like 50 ft long, and was a double image, printed twice next to each other. The image was made in newspaper style half tone dots! Sounds strange, but the effect was amazing! As you stand close the dots are quite obvious, and to see them coalesce into the image is like an optical illusion, or like a Liechinstein painting, which enlarged the dots used in comic book to make a large painting of a cartoon. I just googled an image of the Warhol print and it looks totally unimpressive on screen, totally unlike the real thing.