[blansky]

Well, Clive, here are a couple of answers: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...of-old-photos/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/14/...on-at-auction/

And the most interesting quote: "Eggleston has been kind of stuck in the old school world of the photography collectors for a long time, whose primary concerns are about process, print type, print date, etcetera. [...] for contemporary art collectors it’s much more about the object itself—they couldn’t care if it’s a dye transfer or a pigment print or whatever, as long as the object itself is totally amazing, that’s what they care about.

This is an attempt to start a migration of Eggleston from the quote unquote confines of the photography world into the larger context of the art world. I think it was probably the most important event for Eggleston in a long, long time."


Beauty, in the end, is always in the eye of the beholder

But again, as we talked about earlier, a "collector" may be the perfect analog client but most people really can't tell or understand the difference in analog and digital and just "like what they like".