dinsdag, april 20, 2004
There was a time when most photographic prints were small enough to hold in the palm of your hand. If you had visited Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery in 1920, for example, you might have been handed one of his pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe. It would have been an intimate experience.
Fast forward to the era of the big picture. In early 1981, an atypically large print of Ansel Adams's "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" — 39 by 55 inches — was sold by G. Ray Hawkins Gallery in Los Angeles for $71,500, at the time the highest price ever paid for a photograph. Since then, photographs have been steadily expanding in size, along with their importance in the eyes of critics and their value in the marketplace.
Lees meer over "grote maten" in de New York Times onder de titel Why Photography Has Supersized Itself.
Fast forward to the era of the big picture. In early 1981, an atypically large print of Ansel Adams's "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" — 39 by 55 inches — was sold by G. Ray Hawkins Gallery in Los Angeles for $71,500, at the time the highest price ever paid for a photograph. Since then, photographs have been steadily expanding in size, along with their importance in the eyes of critics and their value in the marketplace.
Lees meer over "grote maten" in de New York Times onder de titel Why Photography Has Supersized Itself.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 23:23
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