Pictures for the Art Maffia?

The author, a Dutch photographer and in the 70s and 80s a
favourite of the photographic art market, explains why he
dropped out. From 1979 until 1981 he had a contract with the
Zabriskie Gallery, from 1981 until 1983 with Harry Lunn together
with David Grob, and from 1983 until 1985 with the Dalsheimer
Gallery (for the USA) and Galerie Fiolet in Europe. From then
on, his work is no longer sold through galleries, because of the
influence that galleries try to exert on the format and edition
size. Another gallerist withheld his sequences in order to raise
the price later. The author critizes this creation of artificial
scarcity, a more common attitude among art-gallerists. ""When an
artist- photographer gets involved in the commercial art scene,
it will influence his feelings, his thinking and his work. I
experienced this influence as negative.''