[Alt-photo] Re: sticker shock

[Bert Kuijer]

Wait till I tell my kids this story. That old stuff I'm learning at Kees
Brandenburg workshops these days is gonna pay for college for their
grandchildren in a 100 years or so!!!


2013/6/3 Christina Anderson <christinazanderson at gmail.com>

> Dear All,
> Got a chance to visit Carmel CA and galleries there. First funny thing,
> was at one gallery there were a set of c-prints by some photographer and
> they were described as if they were some ancient process. Too funny, since
> it hasn't been that many years (2007) since we got rid of the color
> processor at school, but now have Jobos that the students are using to
> develop their own film and prints.
> Next was this great gallery, I think the oldest in Carmel, that had a lot
> of big names...and some gum prints! There was a largish monochrome gum of a
> landscape scene by Steichen, very dark, moody. It looked like 11x14 size.
> It was $875,000. If I bought it that day, the gallery would discount it
> $75,000. When I talked about it with the gallerist he was surprised I knew
> what a gum print was :)
> Wow.
> Chris
>
> Christina Z. Anderson
> christinaZanderson.com
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