Digital BW, The Print

The piece on editioning was this year #36 July/August 2001 titled "What size is the Edition"  by Brooks Jensen

- J :)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Julian Thomas 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 3:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)


  Thanks Steve, I'll order that copy. Anyone know the issue number that had
  the piece on editioning?

  Julian
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: <sdmey4@...>
  To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 8:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)


  > There is a very interesting article" Dealing with Dealers" in the current
  > issue of Lenswork written by John Wimberley! A photographer who has made
  his
  > living for more than 20 years from gallery print sales. He relates
  > experiences with 40 dealers/galleries throughout his career, most of it
  > negative. He relates an example:
  > Cost of making the print 200.00 so at this cost he needs the gallery to
  price
  > the work at 1000.00 so his split will be 500.00 So he has his 200.00 cost
  > from that 500 and is expected to supply a replacement print for the one
  sold.
  > He may also be asked to help out paying for promotional material and wine
  > cheese and shrimp dip for the opening. Doesn't leave much left does it
  from a
  > 1000.00 sale.  The article is several pages and touches on non paying and
  > extremely slow paying dealers (many of them behave this way)! Find a
  dealer
  > you trust or, sell direct is his message. He did live in his darkroom for
  14
  > years and slept on the floor, so the article states!  Slow and non
  payment,
  > even refusing to return inventory is not uncommon. I found the article
  very
  > interesting and I will be more hesitant to solicit out of state galleries
  > that I don't know much about.
  > Steve Meyers
  > http://www.xray-art.com
  >
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