{"id":2788,"date":"2016-02-04T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:47:07","slug":"musings-from-a-woman-on-the-edge-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/musings-from-a-woman-on-the-edge-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings from a woman on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Katrina Penaflor\r\nManaging Editor<\/pre>\n
Would you spend a million dollars on a picture of a potato? Like, the things fries are made of. Also, there will be nothing else in the picture\u2014it\u2019s just a potato on a black background.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not even held by anyone cool, like David Beckham or John Stamos. It\u2019s. Just. A. Potato.<\/p>\n
Well, a European businessman did. He spent just over $1 million on a photograph of a spud.<\/p>\n
To have the kind of money to just casually be like, \u201cOh, I think I need a picture of a potato, hopefully I can find one that fits into my budget of a million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
The picture was taken by Kevin Abosch, a famous Irish photographer, or at least famous enough to credit such an outrageously high sale.<\/p>\n
Abosch has taken pictures of people like Stephen Spielberg and Malala Yousafzai, and his photos average a cost of half a million dollars.<\/p>\n
This is what Abosch told the Irish Times about the photograph: “I see commonalities between humans and potatoes that speak to our relationship as individuals within a collective species [\u2026] generally, the life of a harvested potato is violent and taken for granted. I use the potato as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience.”<\/p>\n
Well, I do have to give it to Abosch. That\u2019s probably one of the greatest and most emotionally gripping potato descriptions I\u2019ve ever read.<\/p>\n
But did it make the picture worth its million-dollar price tag? I think not.<\/p>\n
I wonder if I started taking pictures of potatoes, if I could bring in that kind of cash. Hell, I\u2019ll settle for 20 dollars for the picture, or 10, I\u2019m not picky.<\/p>\n
And, to the man who bought it, I hope it hangs proudly above some lavish fireplace in your home. I also wonder how many times it will be mistaken for a framed Instagram picture of what you were making for dinner one night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Would you spend a million dollars on a picture of a potato? Like, the things fries are made of. Also, there will be nothing else in the picture\u2014it\u2019s just a potato on a black background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}