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jon koss · Sep 10, 2006

No dog in this fight, but I thought the color buffs might enjoy this. There seems to be huge interest in any case.

J

http://cgi.ebay.com/WILLIAM-CHRISTE...8QQihZ002QQcategoryZ66465QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

VoidoidRamone · Sep 10, 2006

I was thinking about buying his new boor a few days ago, he has some really interesting stuff. I like that print, but there's no way I could afford it.
-Grant

roteague · Sep 10, 2006

jon koss said:
No dog in this fight, but I thought the color buffs might enjoy this.

I must be the wrong kind of color buff, but I wouldn't go more than $8.50 for the print, much less $850. It is a horrible print, looks like something I would get at WalMart.

pentaxuser · Sep 10, 2006

Somebody's having a laugh here - surely. It looks like a very ordinary snapshot that anyone could have taken and only a 5 x 3 inch print as well! There's much better in our galleries.

pentaxuser

Michel Hardy-Vallée · Sep 10, 2006

I think I smell an Egggleton-like moment...

smieglitz · Sep 10, 2006

Christenberry strikes me as an obsessive type, but interesting as such types can be. I recently saw his exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC and was impressed. In addition to some excellent photographs, he also had some sculptures and drawings that made for a interesting perspective on the Southern US environs and his reaction to the KKK.

There seems to be quite a flirtation with time and sequences in contemporary photography - witness Christenberry and Sugimoto.

Great use of color IMO. Not knock-'em-dead, bowl-you-over, bright-and-pretty postcard stuff but very subdued and sensual nonetheless. Definitely distinctive as is Eggleston, Shore, Sternfeld, etc. If I could afford these guys, I'd buy the sofa to match the print...

To quote Goethe: "Colors are the Deeds and Afflictions of Light." I think we see both with Christenberry.

Joe

Lopaka · Sep 10, 2006

roteague said:
I must be the wrong kind of color buff, but I wouldn't go more than $8.50 for the print, much less $850. It is a horrible print, looks like something I would get at WalMart.

Those were my thoughts, exactly. Before I read Robert's and pentaxuser's posts. It seems there's at least three of us that think it's a joke.

Bob

Travis Nunn · Sep 10, 2006

Lopaka said:
Those were my thoughts, exactly. Before I read Robert's and pentaxuser's posts. It seems there's at least three of us that think it's a joke.

Bob

Make that 4

Honestly, this looks very much like the photographs I took of my grandfather's old barber shop years ago before I knew anything about photography other than point and shoot. Focus on the subject and put everything dead center.

bill schwab · Sep 11, 2006

Lopaka said:
It seems there's at least three of us that think it's a joke.

No Joke.

B

Lopaka · Sep 11, 2006

billschwab said:
No Joke.

B

Because the photographer had established a 'name' it has value to certain collectors. To me, it only has value if I like the image. While there may be no accounting for taste, (mine in this case ) I just don't find that image particularly inspiring.

Bob

removed account4 · Sep 11, 2006

me too joe -

i find photography like this to be more than interesting.
if this was framed at walmart or bed bath and beyond i'd buy it in a heartbeat, only way i'd be able to afford something like this ...

-john

smieglitz said:
If I could afford these guys, I'd buy the sofa to match the print...

Joe

bill schwab · Sep 11, 2006

Lopaka said:
While there may be no accounting for taste, (mine in this case ) I just don't find that image particularly inspiring.

I was certainly not questioning your taste Bob! Only pointing out that Christenberry is well respected amongst many photographers, artists and collectors. My link was pointing out that, although some may not know of his work or particularly enjoy what he does, the listing in eBay was no joke.

It is strange coincidence that while reading this thread last night, I was also watching in the background a DVD of "Walker Evans: America". Right after I posted the "no joke" link, who shows up on my TV being interviewed about Evans but Christenberry himself.

Bill

Gerald Koch · Sep 11, 2006

They say to collect what you like, therefore I will NOT be purchasing this print or anything remotely like it.

digiconvert · Sep 11, 2006

billschwab said:
No Joke.

B

Apparently the photographs
"...often making the space as or more important than the building. He uses rich and intense colour.

(My emphasis)

Don't see that here. Still if we all liked the same stuff it would be a boring world.

VoidoidRamone - You out there? Interesting color shot.

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