Digital BW, The Print

Just returned from a holiday in 
Antigua and visted a lovely art gallery called Kate  Spenser. she is 
an English artist who married a man form St Kitts many years ago  
and has been painting lustrous pa9nitngs in the caribbean ever 
since . She has two  high end  classy galleries  that I know of,.  
the one in Antigua I visited and one where she lives in St kitts.  
All her work now is only available in 40 x 60 or even larger giclee 
prints in editions or 50 for 650$ US and they sell like hotcakes!
  Seems it is not a problem if you are  a painter. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, J Vee 
<j.vee@g...> wrote:
> Any fine art photographers successful in getting digital prints 
accepted for
> sale in galleries, high end art fairs, etc? Strange, I can make a
> "perfected" negative, could use for contact printing forty+ Silver 
prints in
> an afternoon, and these would be considered hand made original 
prints.  The
> fact is that digital prints, no matter how excellent the image or 
the
> printing, are somehow considered mechanical "reproductions" with 
relatively
> little value.  This fact, taken with the continuous print 
improvements
> discussed in this forum, make me feel that we are in the midst of 
a major
> and irreversible change in the way photographic prints are 
perceived by the
> buying public, a change which will probably not be beneficial to 
those of us
> who sell prints.  Any thoughts?