PurePhoto featured on All My Faves…

PurePhoto featured on All My Faves…
PurePhoto.com is all about making photography collection social: it connects art collectors to brilliant photographers and their work. So artists struggling to break free from the shackles of namelessness in the commercial world of photography can use PurePhoto to post their work, and be  seen directly and purchased by the collectors [...]

Why is this photo worth $578,500???

I thought this was a great post on PetaPixel. It is brilliantly written by David Cohen de Lara

Last week, a collection of 36 prints by William Eggleston was sold for $5.9 million at auction.  The top ten list of most expensive photographs ever sold doesn’t contain a single work worth less than a cool million. Just a few [...]

Mountain of Images From Flickr

I had clipped this post from My Modern Met a few months ago and always meant to do a post on it. The image below is a gallery installation from Dutch visual artist Erik Kessels of over 1,000,000 photos that were uploaded to Flickr in a 24 hour period. It goes beyond the fact that Flickr [...]

Street Artist Goes From Homeless To Multi-Millionaire!

(CBS) – Graffiti artist David Choe is hands-down one of the most surprising success stories to come out of the Facebook initial public offering Wednesday.
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Choe was hired by then Facebook president Sean Parker to paint a mural at Facebook’s first office in Palo Alto in 2005. When the mural [...]

Introducing Adriano D’Angelo

I wanted to share some work of a new artist on PurePhoto, Italian artist Adriano D’Angelo. I love the feeling I get from looking at his work. You can read his own commentary below but for me the deep layering of texture and the mood he creates is almost Rothko-esque in its nature. Many people don’t respond [...]