As the son, brother and father of photographers I have to acknowledge that I am partial to the notion that people with cameras can produce rapturously important works of art.  Further, I am partial to landscape photography.  Recently I started to realize how quaint my understanding of the economics of being an “art” photographer, landscape or otherwise, has been; and those economics just experienced a tectonic shift.

Click the image to see a finer grain version, and click here to see the price paid for this Andreas Gursky photograph at a recent auction.  I wonder if I will ever understand art from a “market” perspective.