Pricing alternative process prints for art fairs

[xkaes]

That sounds like a valuable exercise to me. For several reasons.

He was very effectively demonstrating the importance of Art-speak -- and the lack thereof.

If you want to sell your photos, you better be a good salesman.

If you're selling used cars it's called "throwing the B.S.". If you're selling art it's referred to as "Art-speak". If you're a politician, it's called.................

 

[koraks]

IDK, I can appreciate a good salesman and I can appreciate a good story. Good salesmen tend to have good stories. But there are a heck of a lot of mediocre or even bad salesmen around. Fortunately for them, there's also a lot of indifferent customers with money burning in their pockets.

Anyway, the notion that selling art would somehow involve BS is...well, BS, I think. But I do understand that some stories don't make a whole lot of sense to some people - or simply don't appeal to them. That doesn't make them bad stories, per se.

 

[xkaes]

I've heard enough Art-speak and used car sales pitches to know that there's no definitive line between it and salesman B.S. What's the difference between a successful salesman and an unsuccessful one? It's certainly not telling the truth, but it might be, as you suggest, the ability to tell a good story -- AKA, B.S.

I still remember back when I bought my last car. The salesman told me that State Law required a $300 undercoating. I told him that it was not the case, and showed him the Chevrolet Sales Brochure which clearly stated that adding an undercoating voided the Chevy warranty. His response was, "I wouldn't lie to you, I used to play for the NFL".

The best con men aren't liars, but they don't tell the truth either.