William Eggleston prints sell for 5.9 million

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by Cathus

I think Tracey Emmin has sold work for many many thousands of pounds. That doesn't mean she is any good, it just means someone has been willing to pay a lot of money.

the financial value of a work says nothing about the skill of the creator, it just means someone, artist, purchaser or reviewer considers themselves in some way elite.

Tracey Emin is marmite, you either love her or hate her. I like some of her ideas and concepts but some of her work I feel is overrated. I did like her bed idea and the tent she did with lovers names in but thought the tampon work she made was really vile and of bad taste.

Karen

[Cathus]

It's the same with all art.

My one measurement for art worthiness is whether I think anyone else could do the same. There aren't many people in the world who could produce a painting the likes of a Caravaggio, to me, that is art, anyone could stick diamonds to a model skull, or copy a toy medical torso, or take a photo of a a roof, to me that is not art.

just my own benchmarks, I argue with my wife all the time about moden art, or as I like to think of it, the lack of modern art

[ABERS]

"Eggleston is a pioneer of color photography, and a legend. For the last forty years he’s been “at war with the obvious,” working in a “democratic forest” where everything visible is equally viable as subject matter. Trees, dirt, signs, houses, carpet, red ceilings, naked men, old men with guns, tricycles, etc. Working in this manner, he inspired many photographers to look no further than their immediate surroundings for inspiration. Then came digital cameras, and then the internet, and then Flickr. Eggleston may have won the war with the obvious, but now the obvious is getting its revenge in the form of the millions of banal, boring, dull photographs that are being uploaded to the web everyday. We don’t need to go far to find the ‘democratic forest,’ in fact, we may never be able to escape it."


So he's to blame for all the rubbish!

Lifted from a a series of critiques entitled 10 Photographers You Should Ignore

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/03.../?viewall=true