To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs

[DREW WILEY]

"Plow and cultivate the soul", nikos? - Looks like a pretty shallow dry well in this case.

 

[Cholentpot]

So, really. What's the problem with charging a fee to do that? When one of her prints sold for $3.9 million, it wasn't just after she printed it. That's not what she sold it for.

I guess you think she should do it for nothing for private collectors. She's already not charging institutions.

What's wrong with her making money?

Because if I did this my clients would be hopping mad. 'You sold me a print and it faded and now you want to charge me for another?'

 

[Dave Lusby]

If, like me, you don't like her work, then the debate over re-issuing the prints, is entirely moot. Bad art is bad art, even if it's a new print. The debate here seems to be about her work as an investment, and its long term return, rather than its intrinsic artistic value.

 

[MattKing]

Because if I did this my clients would be hopping mad. 'You sold me a print and it faded and now you want to charge me for another?'

Do you sell extremely limited edition prints, and provide authentication of their rarity? If so, do you charge anything close to what Ms. Sherman charges for that?

 

[nikos79]

"Plow and cultivate the soul", nikos? - Looks like a pretty shallow dry well in this case.

Yes, maybe a bad idea to mix Tarkovsky and Sherman