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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, September 09, 2009
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 | Life's Work at Stake: Loan deadline is up for Annie Liebovitz
NY Times - September 9th, 2009 00:04
NEW YORK - The photographer Annie Leibovitz’s $24 million loan was due Tuesday, but by the end of the work day, it appeared that little had happened between her and her lender. Although Sept. 8 was widely reported as Ms. Leibovitz’s day of reckoning, the day when she might have to file bankruptcy or lose the rights to her photographs and her homes, both Ms. Leibovitz and her lender, the Art Capital Group, were quiet about what, if anything, was happening between them.Read more | |
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 | Polaroid Sell-off: Photographers lament loss of historic instant image trove
- September 8th, 2009 17:47
BOSTON - All of the precious Polaroids, a 16,000-piece collection of one-of-a-kind prints by hundreds of photographers ranging from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, were supposed to stay together forever. Polaroid’s corporate art collection survived a 2001 bankruptcy intact, to the delight of photographers and photo historians. Now a reorganization is forcing the once-mighty company to auction off the collection at Sotheby's. Next spring, the first 1,260 pieces could fetch $11 million...Read more | |
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 | Digitized Culture: High-tech copies preserve original art, architecture
asahi - September 8th, 2009 16:41
TOKYO - The protection of cultural properties is going digital, with Buddhist sculptures, old paintings and World Heritage sites like Beijing's Forbidden City being preserved as digital images and in video. The move is a result of not just progress in image processing technology but of awareness of the need to protect cultural assets from deterioration and damage from disasters. Two printing companies, Dai Nippon Printing Co. (DNP) and Toppan Printing Co., both based in Tokyo, are charging ...Read more | |
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 | A Classic Luxury: Brando-owned watch at auction
Luxist - September 8th, 2009 18:44
NEW YORK - Later this month Antiquorum in New York will auction a gold cased Vacheron Constantin watch that was given to Marlon Brando by Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1954 (estimate $3,000-$8,000). The classic watch bears a style of guilloche engraved dial decoration that you don't often see anymore. It is said that the watch was given to Brando by Gabor when "On The Waterfront" was released in theaters. The movie went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as Best Actor for ...Read more | |
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