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William Eggleston the 73 year old American photographer who is credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries has been featured by Julia Halperin in a Blouin Artinfo article titled ‘Judge Rules William Eggleston Can Clone His Own Work, Rebuffing Angry Collector’. Halperin states “Photographers across the country can breathe a sigh of relief. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed collector Jonathan Sobel’s lawsuit against photographer William Eggleston. The case, art law experts say, has broader implications for all artists who incorporate old photographic negatives into new work — and the collectors who support them. Filed last April, the complaint alleged that Eggleston diluted the value of Sobel’s collection by printing larger, digital versions of some of his best-known works and then selling them for record prices at Christie’s. …The lawsuit was spurred by Christie’s sale last March of 36 poster-size, digital prints of images that Eggleston had shot in the Mississippi Delta more than 30 years ago. Some were created from negatives he had never printed before, while others were based on iconic works… For Sobel, who owns 190 Eggleston works, the success of the sale was part of the problem. “The commercial value of art is scarcity, and if you make more of something, it becomes less valuable,” he told ARTINFO last April. The judge disagreed. Egggleston may have profited from the Christie’s sale, she concluded, but not at Sobel’s expense. Eggleston could be held liable only if he created new editions of the limited-edition works in Sobel’s collection using the same dye-transfer process he used for the originals — a move that would directly deflate their value. In this case, however, Eggleston was using a new digital process to produce what she deemed a new body of work.”   Inspired by Julia Halperin, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/k6Eb7 Image source Facebook ow.ly/k6E3T Deemed a new body of work (May 8 2013)

 

William Eggleston the 73 year old American photographer who is credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries has been featured by Julia Halperin in a Blouin Artinfo article titled ‘Judge Rules William Eggleston Can Clone His Own Work, Rebuffing Angry Collector’. Halperin states “Photographers across the country can breathe a sigh of relief. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed collector Jonathan Sobel’s lawsuit against photographer William Eggleston. The case, art law experts say, has broader implications for all artists who incorporate old photographic negatives into new work — and the collectors who support them. Filed last April, the complaint alleged that Eggleston diluted the value of Sobel’s collection by printing larger, digital versions of some of his best-known works and then selling them for record prices at Christie’s. …The lawsuit was spurred by Christie’s sale last March of 36 poster-size, digital prints of images that Eggleston had shot in the Mississippi Delta more than 30 years ago. Some were created from negatives he had never printed before, while others were based on iconic works… For Sobel, who owns 190 Eggleston works, the success of the sale was part of the problem. “The commercial value of art is scarcity, and if you make more of something, it becomes less valuable,” he told ARTINFO last April. The judge disagreed. Egggleston may have profited from the Christie’s sale, she concluded, but not at Sobel’s expense. Eggleston could be held liable only if he created new editions of the limited-edition works in Sobel’s collection using the same dye-transfer process he used for the originals — a move that would directly deflate their value. In this case, however, Eggleston was using a new digital process to produce what she deemed a new body of work.”

 

Inspired by Julia Halperin, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/k6Eb7 Image source Facebook ow.ly/k6E3T

John Axelrod the 66 year old retired attorney and collector of so-called “Loisaida” art [Latino pronunciation of Lower East Side) artist of 1980s] has been profiled by Judith Gura in an article published on Blouin Artinfo titled ‘Collecting Is a Disease”: Nonstop Art Acquirer John Axelrod Can't Stop Hunting’. Gura states “Visitors entering John Axelrod’s spacious town house apartment in Boston’s Back Bay are met by Myrna Loy, an affable Australian terrier, and an eruption of graffiti art by the likes of Dondi, Crash, and Lady Pink invading an environment of pristine walls, neoclassical moldings, and American modern furniture. Axelrod is passionate about graffiti art, but it is not his first collection; it follows a half-dozen others, all comprehensive. He is not simply an obsessive collector—he’s a serial one. Over a span of four decades he has assembled groundbreaking collections of American prints, European Art Deco objects, American modern decorative arts from 1920 to 1950, Memphis furnishings, African-American painting, and Latin American art. Each collection was accompanied by painstaking research, and each was divested as Axelrod moved on to another category with renewed enthusiasm for the thrill of the chase. “Collecting is a disease,” he explains. “I’m just another sufferer.” He doesn’t look like he’s suffering. A former lawyer and businessman, Axelrod has clearly enjoyed his art pursuits. More important, the outcome of this process has been substantial: All but one of his collections have gone to museums, where they have stimulated additional donations and acquisitions. …Axelrod admits to enjoying the endorsement of museums. “It’s the bottom line,” he says. “Nothing validates what you’ve done like having a museum take it.” Summing up his accomplishments, Axelrod adds, “I think I’ve helped the museums move into areas they might not have gone into, or not with the same depth. That’s my legacy. You made a change: That’s what I’d like as my epitaph.”  Inspired by Judith Gura, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/jBe1R Image source Vimeo ow.ly/jBe0Q Collecting is a disease I’m just a sufferer (April 25 2013)

John Axelrod the 66 year old retired attorney and collector of so-called “Loisaida” art [Latino pronunciation of Lower East Side) artist of 1980s] has been profiled by Judith Gura in an article published on Blouin Artinfo titled ‘Collecting Is a Disease”: Nonstop Art Acquirer John Axelrod Can’t Stop Hunting’. Gura states “Visitors entering John Axelrod’s spacious town house apartment in Boston’s Back Bay are met by Myrna Loy, an affable Australian terrier, and an eruption of graffiti art by the likes of Dondi, Crash, and Lady Pink invading an environment of pristine walls, neoclassical moldings, and American modern furniture. Axelrod is passionate about graffiti art, but it is not his first collection; it follows a half-dozen others, all comprehensive. He is not simply an obsessive collector—he’s a serial one. Over a span of four decades he has assembled groundbreaking collections of American prints, European Art Deco objects, American modern decorative arts from 1920 to 1950, Memphis furnishings, African-American painting, and Latin American art. Each collection was accompanied by painstaking research, and each was divested as Axelrod moved on to another category with renewed enthusiasm for the thrill of the chase. “Collecting is a disease,” he explains. “I’m just another sufferer.” He doesn’t look like he’s suffering. A former lawyer and businessman, Axelrod has clearly enjoyed his art pursuits. More important, the outcome of this process has been substantial: All but one of his collections have gone to museums, where they have stimulated additional donations and acquisitions. …Axelrod admits to enjoying the endorsement of museums. “It’s the bottom line,” he says. “Nothing validates what you’ve done like having a museum take it.” Summing up his accomplishments, Axelrod adds, “I think I’ve helped the museums move into areas they might not have gone into, or not with the same depth. That’s my legacy. You made a change: That’s what I’d like as my epitaph.”

 

Inspired by Judith Gura, Blouin Artinfo ow.ly/jBe1R Image source Vimeo ow.ly/jBe0Q

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