Chimpanzee’s Photographs Set to Fetch Over $100,000 At Auction

[kbg32]

How many remember Ruby?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(elephant)

 

[--s]

anyway, that chimp enjoys the true freedom of an artist. when i just think of my own attempts to shoot without underpants on,.....!!!

 

[DougFord]

Don't blame the MONKEY !

The monkey I bought at Precision Cameras & Monkeys acts as though its never seen a camera, let alone know how to operate one!
I think it's mess'n with me...man.

Seems everybody's got something to hide 'cept for me and my monkey. 😡

Fwiw- I like some of Komar and Melamid's work

 

[noisycheese]

If this doesn't make a person want to fling their cameras into the nearest lake, nothing will.

Damn monkeys - can't have nothin' nice. 🙁

 

[williams473]

I once had a photo instructor point out experiements that have been done like this is the past in which a chimp was trained to press the button on an SLR (looks like the Russians were cheating and helping their chim press it). Let him go ape on a few hundred frames and he'll get you a good photo or two. But can the chimp pick the good frames? Nope. It blows my mind that people are starving to death around the world and we have people at aution houses dropping money on this kind of stuff...

 

[nikkor-watching]

Maybe the chimp could give me some PG tips on taking pictures.
While we're at it, I have a piano that needs moving.
But get your stinking paws off my camera, you damned, dirty ape!