Digital BW, The Print

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Yeah, totally.  I love it when people forget that reproducing a wet 
print is just as easy.  Any fine art photographer who intends to sell 
reproductions of a print that they spent hours dodging and burning will 
take the final print, set it up in a studio,  and burn a roll of film 
taking pictures of the final print.  This makes it almost just as easy 
to reproduce.  At least easy enough that a trained monkey could do it.

People don't pay artists for their blood, sweat, and tears.  They buy 
things of aesthetic merit from them.



Mark Hahn wrote:

|First of all, I think that there is no comparison between photography
|and fine art painting, but just because a painting takes hours to
|complete doesn't mean that it has any real value at all.  There are
|many terrible painting done by bad artists every day which have no
|value.
|
|Photos are different, even traditional prints.  Many traditional
|prints can be duplicated just as successfully as digital images, in
|fact I would avoid almost taking any shot that I knew would require
|hours of darkroom manipulation... since there are infinite images to
|grab, while pick ones that are going to be hard?
|
|Value is set by those paying for the photos, there is no inherent
|value to anything.  If people are happy to pay you might as well be
|happy to sell to them:)
|
|mark
|
|...
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|>There seems to be a lot of people on this site that sell their
|
|digital
|
|>prints.  How have you rationalized this in your mind?  Do you sell
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|a limited
|
|>edition of an individual print?  Once you sell out of a popular
|
|print are
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|>you tempted to hit "print" again and make more?  It would be easy
|
|wouldn't
|
|>it?  :)
|>
|>What does everyone think about this?
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