smbooth wrote:If your going to go that route then perhaps its better to start a swap thread and post a image you have and see if somebody will swap it with a equal image of theirs.
Maybe it's perverse but I'm not very much concerned with what a collectible photograph looks like.
If I ask for a photograph in exchange it's intriguing (thrilling?) as to what I may get. The point is that an
accomplished photographer cannot, even in principle, be wrong about their selection of subject matter and the look of their final work. The act of choosing and the act of making are very much part of the art that mirrors the artistic mind behind it. Finally the act of giving such a photograph to another person amounts to a very convincing endorsement of the work itself.
From the point of view of a collector I collect "photographers" and the "photographs" are merely the device whereby this is achieved. A friend recently joked that if I were offered a good quality 16" X 20" original Ansel Adams for $10000 I'd immediately say SOLD! and it would be some time before I got around to asking "what's it of ?".
The possibility of a grossly unequal exchange always exists but I am comforted by the words of the old proverb: "If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."