Walter Iooss Jr. & Reuben Wu Sell NFTs of Their Photos
Back in March, the artist Beeple sold a digital collage for $69 million. Photographers (and everyone else) suddenly took notice of this relatively new concept of blockchain-based ownership. In the past week, Phase One Ambassador Reuben Wu and longtime Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr sold pieces for nearly $60,000 each. Is it tulip mania or another mechanism for photographers to realize value from their work? In this episode of Vision Slightly Blurred, Sarah and Allen discuss the pros and cons of NFTs in the art world.
Also, Sotheby’s auctions off a set of William Henry Fox Talbot’s photos for $1.9 million, publisher Wildsam releases a Texas BBQ edition travel guide, and Emiliano Granado denies being a millenial.
We mention the following photographers, articles, and websites in this episode:
- Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million (via The Verge)
- Walter Iooss Jr. sold an image of Michael Jordan for $55,978.81
- A 54-Year Super Bowl Streak Comes to an End (via Sports Illustrated)
- Buying Myself Back When does a model own her own image? (via The Cut)
- Emily Ratajkowski Is Selling an NFT at Christie’s (via NYT)
- Reuben Wu sold a video artwork for $61,415.09
- Ladytron – Seventeen
- Photographer Captures Halos Above Rock Pinnacles Using Drones (via PetaPixel)
- Phase One XT
- Images by one of history’s earliest photographers fetch almost $2M
- Henry Fox Talbot auction sale – in pictures (via The Guardian)
- Sebastião Salgado’s “Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil”
- Wildsam Texas Barbecue
Given the necessity for NFTs to utilize blockchain technology with its attendant carbon footprint, I won’t consider using NFT technology and will continue to sell my prints through galleries and online.
Hey ya’ll. Walter Iooss deserving to get paid is an interesting concept. In his heyday, he was sponsored by Kokak, Nikon and a lot of others. He worked for companies like Coca Cola, ATT and so on.
He lives in The Hamptons in sort of a compound.
He’s been paid well and still is, NFTs aside.
Hello, thanks for the blog post, was wondering if these NFT’s might be a feature you could add to the site?
More research on my end before, trying this type of service?