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sugar beets, electricity - nature lost


FranzWeber

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Sort of reminds me of Andreas Gursky and his photo "Rhein II" from 1999. It was sold at Christie's New York in 2011 for the nice price of $4,338,500. So do keep at it, you seem be on the right track to something really big!
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Philip Carlo, thank you for your wonderful comment. The difference between Gurskys "Rhein II" and mine picture is: The originally photographed Lausward power plant and other port facilities in the background and a person in the foreground carrying out their dog were digitally removed by Gursky. Mine Picture is only sharpened a little bit. Best regards, Franz
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This is great news, Franz. Now you can really elevate your prices, pointing out that your work is genuine through and through and not tampered with in contrast to Gursky's manipulated and deceitful trash. Just double your price, why not - the sky's the limit, I guess...I mean, when one can get $4,338,500 for Rhein II, anything goes. Or can anyone give me a CREDIBLE explanation to why (on earth) you can get this kind of money for e.g. Rhein II?
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Dear Franz, I must admit that I do not quite get it. I guess you can try to make a picture look as banal etc. as possible and thereby create an effect. I have the somewhat opposite view that one first of all must avoid boring people with boring pictures. Sorry.
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Dear Franz,

Maybe there is a misunderstanding here: I meant "boring people" in the sense that it is important to me not to bore people with my boring pictures. Therefore I nowadays tend to remove the pictures from my portfolio that have not received much attention, no likes and no comments. In order not to bore people. But tell me constructively what is your idea behind your pictures and the Struffsky stuff - and maybe you also can explain me why somebody wanted to pay so much money for the Rhein II picture? Thanks in advance.

Cheers!

Philip

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Hi Philip Carlo, Struth, Ruff and Gursky are called "Struffky". The title and the picture are a little bit mockery about their work. First I wanted to title it "Gursky" and ask 20.000,-- € for it.

To this picture "sugar beets, electricity - nature lost" is not a joke. It shows that there is no more nature here, only sugar beets and three power plants in the background.

What about Philip Carlo and Jorgensen? It's not an every day combination. Regards, Franz

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I've been meaning to comment on this picture because it represents what I really hope for in a picture. Most people are looking for the fantastic, the beautiful, the dramatic out there somewhere. But its the subjective perception and ability of the photographer to transform the commonplace, understand the relationship of pictorial elements and reveal the underlying mystery of the world that interests me
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Jack, well put: "But its the subjective perception and ability of the photographer to transform the commonplace, understand the relationship of pictorial elements and reveal the underlying mystery of the world that interests me"

 

But too often it turns out to be a hollow claim by the artist trying in a conceited fashion to "grandize" his mediocre work that in fact is just a result of a week concept and weak thinking. How conceited of me to say all that, wow...

And Franz your picture above seems to give som more meaning to me with all the explanation I needed, and now I even can glimpse som smoke in the horizon.

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Franz,

 

the background for my name has from the start been out of my control ;-)

It was my parents who thought they were very clever. At the time of my birth my father had just read a novel by Somerset Maugham called "Of human Bondage". My father liked the main character and his name is Philip. Albeit that the character was a broke and failed student of medicine who limped due to his clubfoot. Both of my grandfathers was called Carl, and I was born and baptized in Italy, so that one was easy: Carlo. Jorgensen, well that is just the family name on my father's side. I am Danish.

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Some centuries ago an educated man in Denmark would write in latin, court the ladies in French, talk with his dog in German and if he had to at all...talk to his servant in Danish.

And who is the famous Franz Weber? You may respond in Danish...;-)

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But this dog you cannot owe...

I'll outrun you and outphotograph you...

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