Digital BW, The Print

Actually Paul
They do.. maybe not to often but they do. So don't slight yourself.. Your in Billings so you may know who I have for a neighbor John Banovich.. I deeply respect him both as an artist and as a business person.. beyond that I like him as he helps us local artists occasionally make our boxes bigger.. John did a book that came out a year ago.. "Beast"  Their was three different editions of it..  The collectors edition is on a par with the high end of this post.. but a tad larger.. His is an edition of 125 books.. with 264 large format pages 17 x 13.5.... so.. It was puffy leather bound in Italy I think and the books are in a wonderful hardwood case.. with a sliding top.. One can be the proud owner of one for 3200.00 / They did a lesser edition called a signature edition... 14 x 11... 500 of them that edition has already sold out.. but these were offset.. Then of course the book store "Gallery Edition" .. 
So maybe anything is possible all we have to do is dream and a hell of  a lot of hard work..

jimbo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:15 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Blurb and B&W


    


  jimbo et al,

  I should add that I don't claim my book was worth that much! The buyer, and the person who came in second, were bidding for a good cause, to raise money for the library. I'd suspect too, he got some tax write-off. The winner got not just a book of photos, but a book artfully bound by a local guy who's keeping the craft of bookbinding alive - and - was supporting a local public good. I doubt very much anyone would pay that much without these other factors!

  Paul

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mrjimbo" <mrjimbo@...> wrote:

  > So doing a book Gary's way or as Paul has mentioned is really great.. and they certainly have their place and purpose.. Paul's effort raised 700 bucks!!!! I also feel that, assuming a product can be gotten from Blurb that meets the artists vision for what their after. Well that's ok too. Probably won't raise that 700 bucks however.. maybe not the right widget for the job..
  > Again I'll say this has really been a great series of posts..
  > 
  > jimbo



  

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