[pure-silver] Re: numbering prints?
- From: "Bob Younger" <younger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Sep 2006 13:32:00 -0700
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:31:03 -0700
He also has some good thoughts on pricing and value of photography;
advocating making photographs available to 'normal' people. Some of it
echoes the writings of Adams who contributed to the distribution of
photography in books, posters, etc. I've completely rethought the pricing of
my prints and am trying to make them affordable by someone like me.
Bob
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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Stoney
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:45 PM
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: numbering prints?
I found it here:
www.brooksjensenarts.com/ What%20Size%20is%20the%20Edition.pdf
I googled on "Brooks Jensen What size is the edition" and then clicked on
the link to the pdf.
It's also here, in html:
http://www.dpandi.com/essays/jensen.html
I read this article and I thought it made a lot of sense, but I was confused
at the end where he wrote:
* It is for the reasons discussed in this article that we are changing our
LensWork Special Editions Collection, both in gelatin silver and in
photogravure, from limited editions to numbered editions. Where we have
already introduced a limited edition on an image, we will strictly abide by
that limit. I may not now agree with these earlier decisions, but I will
honor them; our integrity is too important. We will, however, no longer
offer limited editions on new images.
What does "numbered editions" mean? He gives two alternatives to limited
editions: a simple numbering system, print #`1, print #2 and so on, and
then another system based on the way books are editioned, eg, First edition,
first printing; then first edition, second printing, or second edition,
first printing, etc. What system are they using at Lenswork for the prints
that they sell?
--shannon
I have been very persuaded by Brooks Jensen's (of Lens Work) article 'What
size is the edition?'
I can't find a link to it and I think I can't post it here as an attachment.
Does anyone have the link?
If not I can forward an attachment privately
Tim
http://www.worldoflithprinting.com
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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon Stoney
Sent: 15 September 2006 19:25
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Subject: [pure-silver] numbering prints?
Hi, I went to a talk last night at Houston Center for Photography, and one
issue that was discussed was the issue of numbering photographic prints as
an edition, as one would do with intaglio or lithographic prints.
I do number my photogravures because they are made in the printmaking
tradition of having a plate and making an edition. But sometimes I resent
the fact that I'm not supposed to make any more prints with these perfectly
fine plates. You are even supposed to limit the number of artist's proofs
you make these days it seems!
But I have never numbered my photographs as an edition. I just figured they
were all "open editions." But somebody said that this is not a good idea if
you are selling prints through a gallery.
Indeed, my partner and I were at the Texas gallery over the weekend, which
has a show of photographs of a surrealist garden in Mexico, and there were
some huge, very expensive prints by Sally Mann, in an edition of only 5! Of
course most of us will never be like Sally Mann in that our photographs will
never be worth $50,000 a piece, but it seems that often in galleries prints
ARE numbered as a limited edition.
I found out recently that the idea of numbering even intaglio prints is
fairly recent. Rembrandt just printed until the plate wore out.
I'm not sure when the idea of editions took hold, but I think it was in the
18th or 19th century, and the idea was to make prints more valuable. But I
kind of like the idea that prints are cheap and affordable.
So, just wondering: do you number your prints? Do you make "editions"? Or
do you just print what you want, when you want? Has anybody ever demanded
that you make an edition, in order to make the prints more valuable, say, a
gallery owner?
I guess they are business people too, and it's in their interest to make
your prints seem more valuable.
--shannon
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