8 Years Ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/arts/international/photographys-place-in-the-global-art-market.html

Interesting read. The trend towards large edition sizes - don't create enough rarity for the top buyers.

�Many of these new buyers are looking for unique, high-quality trophy art which has been driving prices of postwar and contemporary art to new heights,� said Anders Petterson, the managing director of ArtTactic. �There has definitely been a trickle-down effect of this on the photo market. However, as most photographic works are selling in the lower- to medium-end of the price spectrum and often in larger editions, there isn�t the same allure of this market to many of these buyers.�

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Stephen Charles

8 Years Ago

The high-end of the art photography market is just about impossible to break into. We have a nice art gallery in our city that specializes in art photography. Over the last 6 weeks they have been showing a large group of images done by a "famous" photographer from the 1970's. About half the images are being offered as "one of a kind" and the others in very small editions. They only had one sale.

Last year I went to the Fraenkel gallery in San Francisco, my brother collects photography and wanted to buy a few Robert Adams prints. I asked the owner if they take in new photographers, he said no... they have more than enough. By the way, the Robert Adams prints we looked at were $12,000-$32,000. The Adams prints were all small silver gelatin prints on 11x14 paper.

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