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[mjs1973]

I have been looking at this photo for a week now and I still don't get it. If I were looking through my photos after a shoot, and I saw this, I wouldn't even give it a second thought. I would have never made a print of it, or even posted it online. It does absolutely nothing for me. Maybe it's just my taste (or lack of taste) in art...

www.petapixel.com had a post yesterday trying to help clarify why this print is so valuable. Honestly, I still don't get it and the quotes from the "experts" didn't help to explain it to me either...

[Didache]

I have been musing over this ever since I read about it and saw the image.

I remember something similar: another picture which achieved a certain amount of notoriety due to its price and apparent lack of merit. Then I saw the image in question in a gallery and suddenly I understood.

Perhaps this picture has to be seen in all its huge glory? My understanding of it is that the photographer has tried to present a Platonic ideal of the river - in that sense I can understand what he is aiming at - and, that being the case, I can accept it as an example of conceptual art. What I find more difficult is the price - what makes this picture more valuable than a hundred other images? Then again, is any piece of art really worth $4.3 million?

Another of this guy's images is in the Tate Gallery in London (London's premier gallery of modern art). Next week (hopefully) I will make a point of going to see it. Maybe I will understand a little more what all the fuss is about.

Mike

[megan]

I think you have something here. I would love to see it in person in order to truly judge it.