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09-02-2017, 10:16 AM
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The old saying is that a picture’s worth a thousand words, but in the case of pop music legend Madonna and an old set of Polaroids, that price is a bit different.
They’re $5,303 apiece — but fans of the icon still might call them priceless.
The set of 66 original images is being offered for $350,000 and it comes from Richard Corman (http://www.richardcorman.com/PORTFOLIO/thumbs), a portrait photographer who shot Madonna in 1983 — just six weeks before the arrival of her first album and her being thrust into the international spotlight.
“She had charisma like I have never seen,” Corman said in Vogue, which is noted in a listing for the photos via The Manhattan Rare Book Company (https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/1949/madonna-richard-corman/madonna-66-the-complete-set-of-original-polaroids). “When you look at somebody through the camera, you either see behind somebody’s eyes or you don’t. And with her, it was ‘Wow.'”
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The photos were previously found in a book, Madonna 66, printed late last year as well as in a series of prints. A set of 25 prints from the collection was £450 ($581.50) via NJG, an independent publishing house in London, while the book was either £60 ($77) or £100 ($129) depending on the edition. Both were signed and numbered by Corman, while a Strictly Limited Edition (http://www.madonna66.com/book/madonna-66-signature-edition/) included a bonus print.
If there isn’t a buyer for the $350,000 set of photos before Sept. 5, they’ll be sold separately, according to The Manhattan Rare Book Company, (https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/1949/madonna-richard-corman/madonna-66-the-complete-set-of-original-polaroids)which is handling the collection. You can see a sampling of the images in a gallery below and the rest of them in the listing for the collection at the link.
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The old saying is that a picture’s worth a thousand words, but in the case of pop music legend Madonna and an old set of Polaroids, that price is a bit different.
They’re $5,303 apiece — but fans of the icon still might call them priceless.
The set of 66 original images is being offered for $350,000 and it comes from Richard Corman (http://www.richardcorman.com/PORTFOLIO/thumbs), a portrait photographer who shot Madonna in 1983 — just six weeks before the arrival of her first album and her being thrust into the international spotlight.
“She had charisma like I have never seen,” Corman said in Vogue, which is noted in a listing for the photos via The Manhattan Rare Book Company (https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/1949/madonna-richard-corman/madonna-66-the-complete-set-of-original-polaroids). “When you look at somebody through the camera, you either see behind somebody’s eyes or you don’t. And with her, it was ‘Wow.'”
https://blowoutbuzz.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/1949_15-e1503934672323.jpg?w=636
The photos were previously found in a book, Madonna 66, printed late last year as well as in a series of prints. A set of 25 prints from the collection was £450 ($581.50) via NJG, an independent publishing house in London, while the book was either £60 ($77) or £100 ($129) depending on the edition. Both were signed and numbered by Corman, while a Strictly Limited Edition (http://www.madonna66.com/book/madonna-66-signature-edition/) included a bonus print.
If there isn’t a buyer for the $350,000 set of photos before Sept. 5, they’ll be sold separately, according to The Manhattan Rare Book Company, (https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/1949/madonna-richard-corman/madonna-66-the-complete-set-of-original-polaroids)which is handling the collection. You can see a sampling of the images in a gallery below and the rest of them in the listing for the collection at the link.
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