[Closed] £2.7m

Look at my wad!

nice. truly outstanding bit of photographic skill right there.

runs to get camera... 😉

The Rhine is a truly amazing river though. Spent a week or so camping beside it and it is hypnotic.

Spent a week or so camping beside it and it is hypnotic.

'Borrowed' a photography coffe table book out of the to be car booteed pile of the missus' old things.

On the one had looking at the picture I thought it was incredibly dull, on the other hand it was quite cool.

£2.7 million though?!!!???!!!!?!? WTF?

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wow hope they do one of a motorway soon - that is dull IMHO.
Folk with money transferring it to art is the cause I would suspect as that is very very dull
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I'm painting my kitchen walls later, i will take a picture of the paint drying. Who wants to start the bidding?

OMG, just goes to show, money doesnt make you happy it makes you stupid

So that bloke on eBay who was trying to get 40k for his HT Yeti might not have been so daft after all - just forgot to call it 'art' and needs to give Christies a call?

"In the end I decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me," he added.

It's photoshopped to add blandness. Amazing.

I quite like it as a photo I might take as a technical challenge, but I wouldn't pay for it.

I’ve taken a few linear land/seascapes myself.

£500k each, all 3 for £1.25m.

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Email in profile if anyone from Christies is reading.

boats, waves. Far too exciting to be art Harry.

Like the top one harry , though the split in the grey shingle is a bit too racy. Perhaps you could photoshop it to be one homogeneous band of shingle?

I like the top one.

Natures version of this.

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Hirst's response to those who said that anyone could have done this artwork was, "But you didn't, did you?"

As a photo of parallel lines of greyness and greeness it works well.
As something to buy at the same price as a bleedin' mansion, it's quite ridicullus.

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A £2.5million mansion, yesterday

Like the top one harry

Cheers. It is a big part of who I am.

I'd been thinking about it from the moment that I saw it whilst walking on the front at Seaton, to the time that I captured it almost 30 seconds, and a memory card change, later. I lived that image for half a minute. It was my reason for existing. We then had an ice cream before getting back in the car and going to Beer instead as Seaton is a dump.

You can have it for £375k as you were so nice.

You can have it for £375k as you were so nice.

Sorry, I was tempted but just noticed there is a grey dot in the sea, that's completely ruined it for me now. 🙁

obviously it is a stupid amount of money, and god knows what people are thinking who buy those things, but I think it is a great photograph. Bet it looks fantastic in real life, too - 12 ft by 6 ft.

I hope everyone copying the pitcure is paying the new owner for the copyright?

Agreed though, the manison is much nicer. I've got the key's for this one though :p

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If I go to the same place and take the same photo as Andreas then hang it on my wall, would that be forgery?

I was tempted but just noticed there is a grey dot in the sea, that's completely ruined it for me now.

[s][huff]That, you will find, is crap on your monitor.[/huff][/s]

Edit. You are right! I think it is a bobbing turd.

Good lord, I have the head of a tiny Grey Seal in my monitor 😀

Christie's said the viewer was "not invited to consider a specific place along the river, but rather an almost 'platonic' ideal of the body of water as it navigates the landscape".

Harry, there is too much clutter in your pictures, so I've removed some of the elements which caused me displeasure.
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Hirst's response to those who said that anyone could have done this artwork was, "But you didn't, did you?"

[i]nice. truly outstanding bit of photographic skill right there.[/i]

mmm but I bet if someone posted that pic on here and asked for opinions it would have been slated. I guess it's easy to say something is 'outstanding' when it's 'worth' 2.7m.

I've no problem with art selling for whatever someone's prepared to pay.

But, is it me, or is the photoshop job really very bad.

but I think it is a great photograph. Bet it looks fantastic in real life, too - 12 ft by 6 ft.

Hmmm, I would best described it as emminently forgettable

Personally I find that photograph more engaging than any paint Mark Rothko has ever slapped in a canvas, and he has been selling for millions for years.

to which they replied neither did you[ one for the art aficionados ]

I think its incredibly good TBH. If I had a spare 2/7 million I'd buy it.

This is another by him. Excellent.

99c Pop

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I've just remembered - I took a picture of the Rhine a couple of years ago and it has a German bloke's bare arse in it. How much would that be worth I wonder.

That's a bit cheeky.

mmm but I bet if someone posted that pic on here and asked for opinions it would have been slated. I guess it's easy to say something is 'outstanding' when it's 'worth' 2.7m.

I was being sarcastic. I think it's pretty shit.

Pah! Loose change.

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Was it film originally? In which case do you get the negatives chucked in for your 2.7 mil?
The thing that I don't get about buying photographs is that there's absolutely nothing to stop someone churning out identical copies for peanuts. A print of a painting is just a print, but a photo is a print to start with.
Anyway, I wouldn't buy it because it would clash with my unique, one-off picture of female tennis player scratching her arse.