Do you buy other photographers work ?

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I just got to wondering, so many on here want to make it as photographers and be able to charge for their work and services.

How many of you actually buy other photographers works ? either online, from galleries etc.


Just curious.
 
I would (and have in the past), buy professional photography for personal events like weddings, of my kids (studio stuff), and work related photo's for our web site etc (mostly stock photo's though).

I've also bought a few posters (yes, I had the tennis playing girl in the 70's!), but never an "arty" image; I just don't like having photo's on my wall enough unless there's an emotional attachment, which by default means my own or my family's pictures. I'd far rather have a painting.

I tell a lie; I once bought an arial photo of our house from a guy who came to the door with it already framed! I paid over the odds too; should have offered him £2 given that it was no use to him if I didn't buy it! Does that count?
 
Just my wedding photos, everything else that's up on my walls has been shot, painted, scrawled, dented & generally created by family.
 
Not for me. Nothing on my walls at the minute, though I do have some to put up, but they're all family ones along with a couple of mine.
 
yup, have several portrait frames from a local pro, and almost offered to buy from someone on here with a landscape shot that blew me away.

Phil.
 
I have a few - one bought from Jimmy Lemon on here, one from a local landscape photographer, a couple from an Irish travel photographer. I buy what I like, especially if it's not something I intend to recreate myself
 
I bought Irving Penn's "small trades", does that count ?....and if it does I guess I buy lots of other photographers work, I mean, why would I buy Vogue if not for the photography..
 
Purchased photos around our house: Event photos (proms & balls); Wedding photos; photos I've bought while on holiday (places I've visited but was not staying long enough to take my own pictures).

The rest were all taken by us.
 
I've bought a couple of prints for my office wall from members of the camera club I belong to. Neither of the photographers are professional but the images were stunning (IMHO) and one of them inspired me to get more into wildlife photography - £5 for the picture ... £550 for the lens I bought to try to emulate it :)
 
Thanks guys its interesting to hear if people actually do go out and if they see something nice in a gallery or exhibition if they buy other peoples work.

Obviously we'd all love people to buy our work but I just wondered if people actively went out and bought other peoples work or if they thought they could re-create the image themselves so they didnt need to buy it or whatever really.....

Or collected images by famous photographers
 
I never felt the desire to purchase photography until i visited the little black gallery a couple of weeks ago. I was in London and couldn't not visit as there was a Bob Carlos Clarke exhibit there, it was a collection of prints by the master himself but had never been shown before, some classics but with distressing, tone and other manipulation carried out on them. I knew the prices would be out of my reach before and i was under no impression i would be able afford one but i know that if i had the money then my name would be on the list.
As for more accessible works, they never have had the attraction.
Maybe i am biased but i feel no desire to buy an image that could create myself.
My brother does sell some shots of local scenery at the centre where my father works, they are pretty standard shots of the local coastline and are pretty much "as you see it" images, he is a great photographer don't get me wrong but the more normal images by him sell far better than say, the more arty ones by myself. I put this down to visitors to these places wanting to take away a visual reference of what they actually saw and not something with ten stop clouds and misty water.
People are funny like that lol!
 
Simon photo said:
a Bob Carlos Clarke exhibit there, it was a collection of prints by the master himself but had never been shown before
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Buy right and they are an investment.

I have two genuine silver prints, both signed, and if I'm feeling a bit down I find out what they are going for at the moment and it always cheers me up.

I have two of his books, both first edition and signed (shooting sex has a dedication to me). They have increased tenfold compared to what I paid for them.

He came to my old London uni darkroom class once, nice chap.
 
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