Did you buy a print this year?

[roberth]

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Hello all,

I am doing a little research and would like to know how many of you have purchased a signed print from another photographer this year. Not a book, not a poster (unless it has been printed at very high quality and signed).

Also please tell us something about the print/s, why you bought it, you do not have to tell us the price but you could let us know if you thought it was well priced or on the edge of the budget.

Love to hear from you.

[roberth]

I bought three this year but would have liked to buy so many more.

 

2 are from Lenswork/Brooks Jensen and I bought a platinum palladium from Kenneth S Osthimer( Cala 2004).

 

The prices from Brooks are amazingly low and one of the reasons I bought them was to see the quality (which is very high). The Cala PT/pd print was purchsed on ebay for a very low price for this hand made piece of work and is a lovely print.

 

While quality is high on my list, a low price is the only way I can afford to own other peoples art.

[MJLogan]

Whether you want to call this a photo print or not is, I suppose, debatable. I bought a signed giclée print by Joni Mitchell (yes--that Joni Mitchell), part of her "Green Flag Song" series.

 

The one-off originals are giclée prints on canvas, about the size of a standard interior door, made up of three stacked photographs. Joni used disposable cameras to capture thousands of images from the screen of a broken television, which gave everything an odd green color with occasional hits of dark magenta. She watched old movies, documentaries and news programs, looking for images to support a complex "futility of war' theme.

 

The 150 images she chose were assembled into 50 triptychs, then digitized and manipulated, then printed onto canvas. The installation, with the 50 door-sized pieces in fairly close quarters, was a real breakthrough for her as a fine artist. She had been a fine painter, printmaker and photographer for decades, but the nine-year-long "retirement" from her musical career resulted in what I think is among the best contemporary visual art I've seen so far this century.

 

When I visited the gallery where the installation was exhibited, her gallerist, printer and digital-tech guru gave me a very interesting tour of his operation, and told me lots of stories about the process he went through with Joni.

 

Here's a link to the whole series:

lev moross gallery

[earleygallery]

Yes I bought a signed/framed print at an exhibition earlier this year. I received an invite to the private view evening and met the photographer. The gallery was offering reduced prices on the night although that wasn't the reason I bought it, I guess it was an impulse buy as much as anything, because I liked the image.

[mitchell]

I didn't buy a print, but I traded for one.

I was at a workshop with David Hiser, who is great, in Moab. Evan Evans took a great image of petroglyphs and I asked him if I could buy a print. He said no, but he'd trade it for one of mine.

This is a really satisfying way to get a great print.

 

Best,

 

Mitchell

[dspeltz]

I bought about 30. All but two from Norm Mauskopf (Santa Fe). I have no room to show them but I am storing them for the future. I saw alot ore I wanted but that is for next year.

 

And two of the same print, one printed digitally recently, one printed on the darkroom in 1975 (same negative) from a well known superb black and white well known photographer/printer. the purpose was to show that a superb printer both digitally and in the darkroom cannot match the silver gelatin print in the digital darkroom.

[John Hines]

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I pick up three print this year. One is from Lenswork by Brooks Jensen. I just liked what going on in the photo. I got one from The Philadelphia Inquirer of Franklin Field taken in 1964 because in 1964 I stood next to my father as he shook Robert Kennedy's hand after a Washington Redskin vs Philadelphia Eagle football game in the stadium. And I got a photo from the New York Times of Battery Park City in 1974. I like the sky with the Twin Towers in the photo.