I went to a gallery show of some lost Rolling Stone Kodachrome snap shots that someone bought at an estate sale and blew up. They are cool pics but nothing special in the way of rock photography, a genre that is pretty rich. Most are of the boys lounging around a pool in about 1965, possibly in Palm Springs. Somewhere in SoCal, anyways.
If you were a real Stones freak, they're more special because Brian Jones is in them. When someone told me the prices for a print, I joked, "why would I buy one of these for $1k? I can just take pictures of them with my iPhone and blow them up. It's the same thing, a print of a print."
Like any opening where you have a loft full of pretty people in the 21st century, everyone is taking photos of the party and each other with their iphones. Because this was a photo exhibit, half the people there were photographers, so it seemed. A million digital photos were snapped. Then a funny thing happened. I noticed people taking close-up photos of the wall photos. More and more as the party wound down. It was really comical but it sort of raises an intellectual property bugaboo...
Today's camera phones take such high quality photos that it has really changed life for me and most other people. I always have a good camera in my pocket or hand. Always. Plus a camcorder. I almost never have a *wish I had my camera* moment, (except of course when the space shuttle flew over my roof a couple weeks ago).
I would not have bought one of the prints even if I had the $$ to burn, I just don't love them enough. Can't see them hanging in my pad. The one in my OP was the best one, IMO, and it was at eye level so everyone was shooting it. I wonder how many people will just print it.
