Photo Art

[Bill Pierce]

Did you know you could buy fine art on Amazon? Under Collectibles and Fine Art you will find photographs. And under photographs you will find

C-Print Photographs (2,004)
Silver Gelatin Photographs (1,157)
Toned Print Photographs (4,571)
Archival Digital Photographs (949)

You can refine you choices by many subcategories such as

Realism (608)
Photorealism (409)
Magic Realism (92)
Socialist Realism (1)

Here’s a bookmark to get you started. You will recognize many of the names and images, but there will be many you don’t know. I would love to hear what you think of some of the images and the prices that are asked.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_ex_n...1&bbn=6685289011&ie=UTF8&qid=1427907547&ajr=0

 

[Sparrow]

... encouraging to see the HDR photos were among the cheapest

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Mr. Pierce, is it A1 Amazon's joke?

Amazon Art houses the finest in photographs.

And I quit on the second page due to amount of crap load. 🙂

 

[jsrockit]

Magic Realism (92)

I'm afraid to look...

 

[Mark Schretlen]

... encouraging to see the HDR photos were among the cheapest

LOL ... couldn't agree more.

 

[daveleo]

FineArtAmerica and deviantart (to name the two that I am familiar with) have been selling pictures like these for years.

Lots of people out there making the pictures they like.

FWIW, a year or so back, the largest selling theme of images on FineArtAmerica were sentimentalized religious pictures. IMO one step up from a Dayglo Elvis on black velvet with white doves overhead.

To each his own.

EDIT: Don't knock Magical Realism until you have read "One Hundred Years of Solitude". You may change your mind ! (Well, you might not, either 🙂 )

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

There are people selling their photos on Ebay, too.

 

[Sparrow]

... people, or artists?

 

[Dektol Dan]

Selling Art

Selling Art

Art is never to be sold commercially. Ever. Not in a gallery or on Amazon. It should never be displayed for for advertizements or promotions.

Art is only for museums.

I've explained this to wife who sells her novels on Amazon for Kindle readers. I say her books should only distributed through public libraries so her art is not made common and cheap.

She thinks I'm nuts.

-Dektol Dan
April 1, 2015

 

[drew.saunders]

Did you know you could buy fine art on Amazon?,...
Socialist Realism (1)

I had to look that one up. I like the image. Not $5,500 "like," but it's not bad at all.

 

[Ranchu]

Close your amazon account. Tell your friends why.


"The Verge has broken an important story on how far Amazon has gone in its relentless efforts to crush workers. Despite its glitzy Internet image, Amazon’s operations depend heavily on manual labor to assemble, pack, and ship orders. Its warehouses are sweatshops, with workers monitored constantly and pressed to meet physically daunting productivity goals. Indeed, many of its warehouses were literally sweatshops, reaching as much as 100 degrees in the summer until bad press embarrassed the giant retailer into installing air conditioners. In Germany, a documentary exposed that Amazon hired neo-Nazi security guards to intimidate foreign, often illegal, hires it had recruited and was housing in crowded company-organized housing. Amazon also fought and won a Supreme Court case to escape compensating its poorly-paid warehouse workers for time they spend in line at the end of shift, waiting for security checks.


Amazon’s latest “keep workers down” practice is to make temps sign non-competes. Yes, if you are so desperate and foolish as to take a short-term gig with Amazon, you will be barred from working for virtually anyone else for the next eighteen months. Look at how incredibly broad the language is in the non-compete agreement obtained by The Verge (hat tip MF):"


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015...rehouse-temps-sign-18-month-non-competes.html