Digital Photography Work

digital photography work


Digital Photograph work today may never command the price that Edward Steichen's "The Pond--Moonlight" did in February, 2006. Of course the techniques and materials used in digital photography work today versus the equipment, techniques and materials used in 1904 are completely different animals. How many gum bichromate prints have you ever seen or worked with? Edward Steichen felt comfortable in his medium. The photograph above is one of three existing bichromate prints that Steichen made from the same negative. It had been part of the Gilman Paper company collection of 8,500 images acquired by the Netropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Since the MET already owned one of the other prints of the image (the third is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York), the museum decided to sell it along with other material at Sotheby's auction.

The bidding at the auction was hectic and frenzied but in the end astonished everyone observing by bringing in $14,982,900! The digital photography work currently spreading throughout the world simply is not ready for prices like these. Many art insiders think the results reflect a steep, upward trend in prices for photography work in general. In November, 2005, a Richard Prince image became the first single photographic work to break the $1 million dollar barrier. Edward Steichen's single image above sold for $2.928,000 dollars! The most expensive single photographic image sold to date putting it in the higher echelons of painted images. "The Pond---Moonlight" was taken in Mamaroneck, New York, near Long Island Sound when the photographer was in his mid-twenties.

The enormous sale price is certainly a good omen for the future of photographic images and especially so for images created with digital photographic equipment and special effects that can render perfection out of anything a creative imagination can come up with. Digital photography work is still in its childhood. The art that digital photography work brings to us is unique and personal to each photographer. As prices for digital images rise, more and more digital photographers will make the world their stage. In the near future, 'a picture that is worth a thousand words' may also be 'worth' a thousand dollars.

digital photography work