Digital BW, The Print

David Myers <dmyers@...> writes:

> I never enter into these discussions and have been sitting back and
> following this thread for about 24 hours.  It is very interesting.  Doesn't
> it come down to the fact that people will purchase a print when it moves
> them, it has energy and they fall in love with it?  My guess is that if
> there was an image that I couldn't take my eyes off of or kept coming back
> to, I would purchase it regardless of whether it was silver based, platinum,
> or printed on an ink-jet.  Yes, I would want to make sure of a great degree
> of permanence because I wouldn't want it disappear before my eyes, but any
> art will degrade some over time.

I'm sure that loving a specific image is a primary motivating factor
for most buyers of art, yes.  

I'm sure some buyers won't pay as much money for an image of unclear
"collectability", though.  

As to permanence -- watercolor paintings have a market, so it would
seem to me that anything that gets up into that range of permanence
can make itself a market.  And we think inkjet prints made with
suitable materials are already well past that. 
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