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Originally Posted by SAllen2556
Now the guy with the original negative....that's the guy with the gold! But the hobby hasn't quite come to that conclusion yet. Photos are still fetching more than negatives it seems. I really think that will change as time goes on. There's only one original negative.
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You just talked about all the variations of prints that the photographers created from THEIR negative - isn't that the real art? Collectors value the work that the photographer-artist put into creating the actual prints, near the actual time they were printed. True - the negative is unique, but you can't display a negative as a piece of art, and if the photographer has been dead for 100 years, he can no longer create a piece of art from the negative. And you certainly can't - as nice a job as John Rogers has done with the Conlon original negatives, they don't come close to the original prints that Conlon produced with vintage techniques, vintage tools and equipment and his own artistic genius.
Still, negatives are doing pretty well these days.