Thread 4476693

How do you sell a photo for over a million dollars?

>>4476693 (OP)
The right connections. Real talent has nothing to do with it at that price point.

>>4476693 (OP)
for starters dishonest photography
rhein ii is heavily shopped

>>4476693 (OP)
You need to be good at editing

>He was the son of photographer Willy Gursky (1921–2016) and the grandson of photographer Hans Gursky (1890–1969)

>His surname, Gursky, is of Eastern European origin, specifically linked to Jewish communities in regions such as Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia

>>4476693 (OP)
>>4476703
if either of these photos were above 30 pixels wide we could compare them but alas

>>4476694
>The right connections
This.
It's not what or how you do, it's who you know.
Especially photography. Since it can be done well by anybody really.

Boys, do not look up the list of most expensive photographs on Wikipedia. You will get angry.

>>4476720
>that'll be 12 million dollars please.

It's art world connections but also theoretical depth. Gursky is working constantly yet only puts out 3 or 4 photos a year. He thinks extremely deeply about what he's doing and the result is that he captures the ennui of late capitalism better than anyone. His photos have to be defensible within the entire canon of western thought so that the old money dilettantes who sip wine and read critical theory all day will shuck out for it.

>>4476722
That one at least makes some sense for the historical aspect: an early conceptual art photo. The Cindy Sherman slop is what got me.

>>4476699
OBSESSED.

>>4476722
Ah the fine artistry of GIMP’s text tool

Get a photo of a celebrity doing something wild.
Sell it to the biggest agency.

In fine art photography, it would be a case of becoming a renown photographer. Being widely published. Receiving critical accreditation for years. Then acquiring a gallerist who would be willing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in promoting you and helping you to produce work by paying for it to be printed and distributed. Then you might produce a work which a company, syndicate, or wealthy individual might pick up at auction for over a mil.
But its rare. You are about 100 times more likely to make a million by literally dumping photography right now and starting painting.

>>4476728

Burtynski absolutely mogs Gursky.

>>4476917
Burtynsky*

>>4476699
That's the point. The artistic intention is how unnatural the rhine valley is.

>>4476917
>>4476946
Oh not at all. Burtynsky's grift is making technically competent photos in privileged places that people like us don't have access to. That's it. Any decent artist of the now century-old modernist tradition would make photos like his in those situations. Sure they are beautiful. But the obvious criticism (which was fatal to the new topographics movement 50 years ago) is why are you aestheticizing something you claim to hate? It's a derangement made even more painful by directly spelling out the environmentalist intent like he does. A clownworld Ansel Adams.

Gursky is also guilty of exploiting access for shock value, but seems to understand he's made a deal with the devil given the conceptual depth of his images. Not being so concerned with seeming formally clever allows him confront deeper cultural aspects of the spectacle. Essentially Gursky depicts the disease, not merely the symptoms.

Starting at 250'000 dollars!
Do I here 300'000 dollars? 300'000 dollar!

>be honest with the right connections this pic would sell way more than the ones you have posted here. But I'm happy with 250'000 if youd find a buyer. I'll be holding on to the RAW

>>4477194
Ill give ya tree fiddy

Money Laundering of course.

>>4477233
I have an art collection worth $180'000.

You know when you buy something and flip it on eBay? Its just that. Even for the big collectors. Nothing more insidious. Anti-Laundering regulations have been in place for years. Identities are checked, bank accounts can be accessed and investigated, sales can be stopped. There are no more anonymous beneficiaries for big sales - the money is traced. The only reason NFTs exploded and then disappeared was because they were a loophole for laundering - and then they immediately got regulated virtually out of existence. Stop being poor with a poor person mindset.

>>4477251
>Anti-Laundering regulations have been in place for years.
They were created to attempt to curb laundering through fine arts among other ways. If one were laundering he wouldn't want the item to make the headlines for a record setting price though.

>>4477251
Follow where grand pieces of art are auctioned off... they pretty much follow the f1 grand prix circuit. Safe havens for taxes. It used to be important port cities and financial capital of the world but that has kinda changed.

>>4476728
this

Gurky is a heavy weight photographer who put his large format cock in mouths of art critics who use to say that "photography is not art". He won all battles for you. Have some respect.

>>4477165
Great post.

>>4477165

True but i don't enjoy either of them for the societal/cultural messaging, i'm sure Gursky is just as pozzed as him when it comes to muh climate change. I just fuck with Burt because he's up there like a photographic skyking just taking the biggest photos of the biggest things. Regardless of the message ypu gotta respect the grind. Also he could just be using the climate change method to pay for his success and thus his elite artist lifestyle taking photos from the heavens.

Regardless of everything id rather have a room full of Burtysnky than Gursky

It has to be something captured so well, that no one else can ever replicate. Keep taking photos until you reach that point.

>>4476693 (OP)
I don't.

>>4478620
>societal/cultural messaging
That's what you're calling the meaning of the work, which is literally the entire point of art. I don't think these guys are for you.

If Burt is pretending to be retarded just to sell photos then he's not a great artist. If people "fuck with" him for vibes while denying the ecological catastrophe in the photo, well that's another failure. Gursky at least has a normie filter.

>>4476693 (OP)
Roll it up, smear a little butter on it, push it up Cindy Crawford sweaty anus, pull it out and put it up for auction.

I mean am i wrong? I think not.