Authenticity is Everything
Jimmy Page / Black Crowes signed prints. Expensive.
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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on
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As is customary in the art world, the price of the Fine Art Prints will increase as the editions sell through. Once an edition is sold out, it will never be made available again.
Lol.
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Juice on
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Unless you are Dylan putting out 1000's of signed lithographs which have NOT appreciated in value if you paid full retail price from the gallery.
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What made me laugh was the it will never be made available again bit. It may be true for the autographed edition.
But if the image is not reissued in another limited edition - perhaps, this time, stamped by the photographer - I will eat my Nikon 501.
Photographers are such scammers. When you own that negative, the world is your oyster.
p.s. Is Jimmy Page even in that photo? Not the teenager in the middle, surely.
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Permalink Reply by Jason H on
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This is true. The art print is usually nothing more than a special photo paper that costs maybe $5 at most for this size. My wife and I used to be photographer/videographer combo and, when we were first starting, I remember perfectly the moment I found out how all of this worked. It's amazing how photographers try to justify some of these prices. Usually it's just someone creating prints of their best photos using a canon pro-300 with converted cartridges using pigment ink from ink-owl.. that used to be the popular way to save on canons massively inflated ink prices. Although I'm sure Ross doesn't need to do this. Would be hilarious if he did. You never know...
My wife who is also an artist, sells her own creations as postcards in a similar way. Costs us $0.08 to create 1 post card from quality paper purchased in bulk from Red River, and resell in bulk quantities for a fair price to a community who knows it's supporting her art. nice profit still for her with minimal amount of work. It was a hassle figuring out reusing and refilling cartridges at first but now it's such a an easy process.
£2000 for this is insane. BUT... This guy is a very well known photographer. Official photographer for Metallica. Some of he's stuff is iconic. He shot my favorite Eddie Van Halen photo. Supposedly lol because he has been sued for fraud not long ago.. photographers are a dime a dozen. "Great" photographers are not as rare as people would thing. It's more of usually being in the right place at the right time but still have the skill to capture the moment.
Anyways, a 16x20 on his site usually is priced at £1300. So while Jimmy isn't exactly the one being unfair, the autographs still mark this up considerably. To me, this is not a highly desirable photograph But this guy does have a market. It's not on eBay though.. maybe I'm wrong but even if Jimmy leaves this world, I don't see this rising in price for anything other than inflation at most. And even less if he keeps doing things like this...
https://lambgoat.com/news/45514/earthburner-guitarist-jeremy-wagner...
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Permalink Reply by Josh Board NEW & Improved on
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Thanks for sharing all that, Jason. That was interesting to read.
As a huge Doors fan, that as a teenager in the '80s, I collected ANYTHING that came out. And I'd always laugh when one of their photographers (Henry Diltz, Paul F., etc), would sell limited edition signed prints. I thought -- who cares, unless the band signs it. Even if you're an Annie Lebowitz -- I want the artist signing it, not the photographer.
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While it's nice the signatures are on the white border, making them easy to see -- I'd much rather have a shot of the band in concert. Just a bunch of dudes standing there -- is hardly an interesting photo. Same with athletes. Would you rather have a signed photo of Jordan's face, or one of him dunking?
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