LONDON ART: PHILLIPS DE PURY

I am no art expert, that is why I love when I get to experience exhibitions or gallery collections with a professional, like a lecturer from Christie's London. I went to Phillip de Pury's preview of photography auction last night.

We bumped into Bambi's friend, Giovanni Gasparini, lecturer at Christie's, who led me around most parts of the showcase explaining all sorts of interesting facts about photographers and photography in general.

Such as when photographers limit the print number of their negatives, it is called editing. Some photographers choose to commit to edit their series to a certain number of copies, obviously making each existing copy more valuable by this; but some photographers, generally the classics, don't commit to editing, because it is fairly a new term/trend to do so, these images will not go for more then a few £thousands. When it comes to the value of these pictures, other facts are considered like when was it printed? All copies can be printed when the photo is made or or over a period of many years. The photographer will also either choose to keep the negative or destroy it. Keeping it doesn't mean they will ever re print later if they have already committed to a limited number of copies. Copies are signed, numbered and dated.

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I have also learnt about the some of the photographers exhibited. Like the following here, that I loved and suddenly reminded me of one of my fave fashion editorials: Re-fashion destruction by Theo Wenner for Purple Magazine ss13. The photographer here is Gregory Crewdson, whose photographs portray suburban life but in a very dramatic way.

I liked many of the exhibited pictures, but this one stood out the most by Thomas Ruff, who gets his images from online and then makes them sort of, super pixelated. This picture was 1 of 3 copies and the artist's proof.