Why is Peter Lik's work so valuable?

[imagemaker46]

All people have to do is hook up with the right gallery at the right time and have the right person by a single piece. After the value has been placed on the one piece, selling a bunch of dogs playing cards is easy.

 

[Buckster]

He sells millions every year and makes a lot of $$$. It's great stuff, yes, but one of his biggest selling images is the shot of the dock leading out into the blue water. Captivating? Yes. Beautiful? Surely. Been done a millions times before and since? No doubt. So, why is his worth $750 per print and Joe Photographer's print is worth $7.50 per print?

Is it all in the name?

Marketing no doubt has a LOT to do with it, but there's more.

Have you ever been to a gallery of Peter Lik's work at full size on walls? If not, you REALLY need to seek one out and GO. It's actually pretty breathtaking.

 

[TATTRAT]

Have you ever been to a gallery of Peter Lik's work at full size on walls? If not, you REALLY need to seek one out and GO. It's actually pretty breathtaking.

Exactly. Went to the one in Lahaina on Maui, it was an experience in itself. They could charge admission. Really stunning to see images displayed like that, especially the slot canyon shots, it was as if we were there.

 

[runnah]

He sells millions every year and makes a lot of $$$. It's great stuff, yes, but one of his biggest selling images is the shot of the dock leading out into the blue water. Captivating? Yes. Beautiful? Surely. Been done a millions times before and since? No doubt. So, why is his worth $750 per print and Joe Photographer's print is worth $7.50 per print?

Is it all in the name?

Marketing no doubt has a LOT to do with it, but there's more.

Have you ever been to a gallery of Peter Lik's work at full size on walls? If not, you REALLY need to seek one out and GO. It's actually pretty breathtaking.

He uses fancy paper that enhances the look.

They all look like screensavers to me.

 

[amolitor]

Printing big makes everyone's stuff look better. That's why galleries are filled with giant prints of nothing these days.

Making a compelling and powerful 8x10, now that's a challenge.

Not a comment on Peter Lik's work specifically, since I literally don't even know who he is.

 

[runnah]

Printing big makes everyone's stuff look better. That's why galleries are filled with giant prints of nothing these days.

Making a compelling and powerful 8x10, now that's a challenge.

Not a comment on Peter Lik's work specifically, since I literally don't even know who he is.

He is the guy who takes all your desktop backgrounds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pet...&biw=1920&bih=1109&sei=j3NDUai7O7ik4AOPioCAAw

 

[kathyt]

Name, Branding, Marketing. Same reason I buy a new Coach purse every year. My must have splurge of a superficial, materialistic item; but I really love them. p.s. Is that tax deductible if I throw my camera in it and use it as a camera bag every now and then?

 

[amolitor]

AIG MY EYES MY EYES. Why couldn't you have just given me a virus or something? Heartless bastard.

 

[runnah]

AIG MY EYES MY EYES. Why couldn't you have just given me a virus or something? Heartless bastard.

Boom! Wide crop + over saturation = famous

 

[Buckster]

Printing big makes everyone's stuff look better. That's why galleries are filled with giant prints of nothing these days.

Lik's prints go way beyond the sheer fact that they're large. The precision and detail on those large prints is nothing short of amazing. Combined with the color reproduction on that "special" paper, it's an experience to the senses that goes far beyond just looking at a large print.

I've seen plenty of large prints in museums and galleries across the United States, from sea to shining sea, and Lik's work truly stands out as remarkable.

It's kind of like seeing photos of the Grand Canyon all your life and then actually going there and having your senses overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the whole experience; Nothing prepares you for that, I don't care how many photos you've seen of it, nor how well they were done - NOTHING prepares you for it. It's like the difference between seeing a picture of a roller coaster and riding one.

Lik's images similarly take your breath away as you experience them.

Not a comment on Peter Lik's work specifically, since I literally don't even know who he is.

Yeah, that figures.

 

[amolitor]

I've heard the 'yeah but when you see the work itself it's totally different and awesome' routine a lot of time, and so far it's never been true. The crud is still crud, the interesting looking stuff that doesn't work for me is still interesting stuff that doesn't work for me, and I still like the stuff I like. Jackson Pollack's stuff was bigger than I expected, but not fundamentally different.

 

[Buckster]

I've heard the 'yeah but when you see the work itself it's totally different and awesome' routine a lot of time, and so far it's never been true. The crud is still crud, the interesting looking stuff that doesn't work for me is still interesting stuff that doesn't work for me, and I still like the stuff I like. Jackson Pollack's stuff was bigger than I expected, but not fundamentally different.

Get back to me after you've actually seen Lik's work in person

 

[amolitor]

Why you gotta be so nasty, man?

 

[Steve5D]

He is the guy who takes all your desktop backgrounds.

You mean I'm Peter Lik?

 

[jwbryson1]

On the wide angle shot of the dock leading into the blue water, does anybody know what kind of lens he used and how wide angle it is? It's pretty damn wide.