Are you fucking kidding me???

Even in a flagging economy, Christie's auction house in New York City was able to attract a record sales price for a photograph. In November, a 1999 photo by German artist Andreas Gursky, of a scenic view of the Rhine River, sold for $4.3 million. (It is possible, of course, that buying the actual waterfront property that Gursky photographed from -- to enjoy the same view every day for the rest of your life -- would have been less expensive.) [Washington Post-AP, 11-11-2011]

This is a great example of how 99% of photography is not an art. at all. a journalistic skill, yes. art? no. its just another excuse for fat hipster girls and skeletor-like boys with no other artistic skills to be artsy. That a picture of something is worth atronomically more than the thing itself is fucking ludicrous. Photography is a technical skill, and a journalistic ability. Combat reporters and international correspondents that snap pictures documenting amazing snapshots that will be world history have my utmost respect. It absolutely takes a strong technical skill and sharp mind. Now, Ansel Adams taking fucking pictures of trees in Big Bear and selling them for 500K? FUCKING RETARDED. Just shows you how retarded supposed 'artsy' people are. I don't care if you find a picture of Mother Theresa pissing on JFKs chest while he is in drag, I wouldn't pay 4.3 Million dollars for it.
 

 

OHH, and here is a heads up. Taking a picture of yourself taking a picture isn't ironic. It's fucking stupid