RDKirk wrote: chez wrote: RDKirk wrote:
My sales of large wall portraits are not flagging, either.
As I always say: Homo sapiens has loved big pictures on her walls for as long as homo sapiens has had walls. That\'s not going to disappear in our lifetimes.
But isn\'t a big LCD wrapped in a beautiful frame a big picture as well that allows the flexibility of changing the picture without having to frame another photo? After all, it is just another display medium much like canvas, metal prints, textured matte, high super gloss etc... The end result is still a photo hanging on the wall.
I may have said earlier in this thread--if not, I\'ve certainly said it many times before--that mama homo sapiens will still want big pictures on her walls even though the medium changes. So charcoal, tempura, oil, silver halide, lcd, there will still be big pictures on the wall. I don\'t sweat a change of medium. I\'m arguing that mama homo sapiens is not now and not in our lifetimes going to eschew big pictures on her wall in favor of tiny pictures in her hand.
And we can never take the proclivities of \"twenty-somethings\" as the direction of the future. When I was in my twenties, I didn\'t care about big pictures on the wall because I didn\'t own any walls. I was happy with my \"book\"--and I was a photographer.
When today\'s twenty-something is a mama with walls, she will want big pictures on them.
But you don\'t get it. You\'ll still have that big picture hanging on the wall that you say the mama homosexual sapien loves...it just won\'t be printed on canvas, but displayed and framed on LED paper. Today\'s young kids are digital everywhere and that will move seamlessly into digital photos hanging on walls. It\'s just a matter of technology getting better and cheaper which it does all the time.
Jan 11, 2013 at 09:04 AM
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