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Free with a 30 day trial from Scribd. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Thompson then lays across this playing field the subject of prices for individual works, which are influenced up and down by the behaviors of all these players and strengths of their relative brands, all contributing to the location of the artist in the hierarchy with the assumption that price and location are related.

Psychology , momentum, scarcity, and adjacent reference points all come together to set current prices, which often seem to have little relation to any definition of 'value' or 'quality'.

This book is full of statistical tidbits and surprising numbers, trying to quantify what is inherently a subjective enterprise, and many of these are unexpected and insightful. Overall, while the market has changed meaningfully due to the changing economic conditions, the book's main points are still relevant and persuasive. Collector's POV : As collectors ourselves, I found much of Thompson's analysis to be generally on the mark, even if I do think that collectors at the top end of the contemporary market are not necessarily representative of the behavior of all the collectors down the food chain like us - as an example , I don't think people who collect emerging work are as influenced by others as those at the top; by definition, they are trying to make their own way and find their own winners.

That said, this book certainly made me think about how brands influence our own activity as collectors, and to what extent those brands change the way we view the photographs we ultimately add to our collection.

We like to think we make our decisions based on our own personal vision of the best of what is available. How much of that world view has been spun by great marketing all around us? That's a hard question, worth pondering. The resale royalty right — also referred to by its French designation droit de suite — was first implemented about a hundred years ago in France, with the intention of protecting so-called struggling artists and their families.

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How much of that world view has been spun by great marketing all around us? That's a hard question, worth pondering. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. Published in by Palgrave Macmillan. Cover shot at right. I was curious to see whether they had become dated almost immediately and how relevant they still were. These books are not about photography per se in this particular case, photography is largely ignored but given photography's increasing importance in the world of contemporary art, there are broad insights from these books that can be applied to the smaller niche of photography.

This book comes from the Freakonomics and Tipping Point school of recent nonfiction, where an economist peers into a small, self contained ecosystem and applies rational economic thought to the activity going on, often producing entertaining, cocktail party ready insights.

In this book, Don Thompson takes aim at the mystifying machinations of the art world.