Andreas Gursky’s $4.3 Million Print Sets New Record
© Andreas Gursky/courtesy Christie’s
Gursky’s “Rhein II” is a 143 x 73-inch signed chromogenic print in an edition of six.
Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” sold for $4,338,500 at an auction of contemporary art at Christie’s auction house in New York on November 8, making it the most expensive photo sold at auction. This is the second time a Gursky print has held this distinction. His 2001 photo “99 Cent II Diptychon” sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $3,346,456 in 2007, and was only displaced in May 2011, when a 1981 Cindy Sherman self-portrait sold for $3,890,500 at Christie’s. The buyer of “Rhein II” is unknown. Read more
Selling Fine Art Photography | PhotoShelter
Photographers and fine art professionals share tips for succeeding in fine art photography.
To help photographers establish and grow their fine art photography sales, we’ve assembled 12 interviews with photographers, gallery owners, online curators and consultants, all with inspiring opinions and insights about what’s working and not working in their unique approaches to succeeding in selling fine art photography. Read more
Wall Street Journal – on Portrait Photo Trends
By KATHERINE ROSMAN
Elizabeth McGuire hates her children’s school photos. “School mug shots,” she calls them.
Parents readily snap and share tons of photos, causing some to ask why would they want a school portrait of their child with a forced grin and hair brushed badly in front of a blue-speckled background. Katie Rosman has details on Lunch Break.
In their annual school pictures, her kids usually look ill at ease, with too-toothy smiles and hair parted to the wrong side against a grainy blue backdrop not unlike that Read more
Ilford Partners with Canon Offering Free Inkjet Prints to Photographers
Avon, CT, USA – JULY 26, 2011 – ILFORD America Inc. (www.ilford.com <http://www.ilford.com/> ), a leading developer and manufacturer of professional quality media for both inkjet printing and color photographic processes, today announced it has partnered with Canon USA Inc. on the new “Try My Photo” campaign <http://www.trymyphoto.com/pro> , a limited-time offer exclusive to United States residents which will allow them to see one of their favorite images printed on ILFORD GALERIE media using the select Canon PIXMA Pro series printers . Read more
Eight New Books About Photography
© Paul Mozell 2011
Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc., has published a number of books by pro photographers, about 
photography, within the past year. These slim volumes will appeal to both new and experienced shooters. Thumbing through the stack of books for the first time, I was impressed with the quality of graphic design as well as the attention to detail from page to page. The books are printed on heavy stock, and both monochrome and color images really pop. Even the software screen captures are clearly visible. The Focus On series parses the most important teaching points of feature-rich software products to a very manageable level. Volumes in the Field Guide series are compact enough (4.5 x 6 inches) to toss in a camera backpack for reference or inspiration when photographing on location. Read more
Review: Light Blue — Software for Studio Management
© Paul Mozell 2011
Photographers and most creative people I know, whether full or part-time professionals, are not good business people. We would prefer to devote as little time as possible to marketing, invoicing, record-keeping, social networking, and tax preparation. Photographers want to be behind the viewfinder and not in front of a screen full of pie charts and prospecting lists. Good software can go a long way towards easing the burden. Read more
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