Because they subscrees without a priori and leave room for the fantasy, the projection and the imaginary, the clichés of Sunday photographers fascinate the most experienced collectors.
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Long, Thierry Struvay collected the big names of contemporary photography such as Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) or Wolfgang Tillmans (born in 1968). “Until their prices fly away and I can not buy anything,” he says. Twenty years ago, the Belgian collector was postponed on the picture anonymous, “these small family moments that few professional photographers hold” Chinés for three francs six in the fleas of Brussels or New York.
In two decades, it has accumulated nearly 100,000 photos, presented twice at the Sorry We’re Closed gallery in Brussels.
Thierry Struvay is not only to love the mysteries of the vernacular photo. Stylist Agnès b. To the Karmitz Marine Cinema producer via the collector Artur Walther, one-day enthusiasts become passionate. The museums also started. In 2017, Sotheby’s sold for 11,250 euros at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, an anonymous photo representing the Halle des Capuchins, in Marseille, around 1840.
For smaller scholarships, the anonymous photo allows for a gentle price. “It is an area where one offers a pleasure and not an investment,” insists Philippe Jacquier, co-founder of the light gallery of the roses, which presents to the International fair Paris Photo , from 11 to 14 November, a selection of anonymous between 500 and 3,000 euros.
In the seventeen years, this former film producer has patiently forged this market. “When I consulted the auction catalogs, I was struck to find more or less the same images of one catalog to another in a market that appeared quite smooth and marked,” he says. He It was necessary to find a new margin in the photography market so that the adventure is exciting. “An adventure all the more stimulating than” we work without a priori, it is pure discovery “, greet Jonas TEBIB , director of the photo department of Sotheby’s, in Paris.