Curator’s Insight — Photographs
Seychelles, Dec. 2008
Freighter on its way from the Port of Victoria at Seychelles in to the Indian Ocean.
Photographs are an established collectible.
North Israel, Apr. 2008
Silhouette of jumpers with a background of the Sea of Galilee.
Photography is a modern art form that has been collected since its invention. It allows the artist to not simply document and record the real world, but to transform it, revealing its mysteries — seen and unseen — to the ‘naked eye’.
Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 2007
Israeli juggles a few balls on the beach in Tel Aviv at nightfall.
London galleries began selling photographs in the mid-1800s. By the turn of the 20th century, Alfred Stieglitz was exhibiting them together with paintings in his New York galleries. Auctions of photographs followed suit, starting in London in 1854 and in America in 1952, paving the way for today’s international photography market.
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Oct. 2011
Particia, 56, cares for her six orphaned grandchildren, whose parents died of AIDS. Three of the children have HIV
What makes an “investment grade collection” in this market? The value of these works on paper is the sum of many factors: not only the image itself, but also the artist, the type and stability of the medium (e.g., daguerreotype, silver-based, platinum, cibachrome, HDR, etc.), the rarity of the edition, whether it is vintage or contemporary, its size and condition, and its provenance. Advances in photographic technology today blur the line between capturing and creating an image, making it an ever more transformative and compelling medium.
Sderot, Israel, May. 2008
A child plays in a sewage-hose that convert into a shelter in the town of Sderot, southern Israel.
Written By: Rayah Levy, Art Market Expert
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