Digital BW, The Print

Hello Julian:

Do you have any information on how to obtain the
magazine? An URL or some other contact info?

Thank you


--- Julian Thomas <julianthomas@...> wrote:
> Sorry for the cross post, but this I think fits both
> lists.
> 
> I've just received two copies of Lenswork - issues
> no 36 and 37. If no one
> has seen this magazine it is a must. it is very well
> written, aiming at an
> intelligent audience (one issue even has an article
> by Tolstoy!) with
> well-presented photography - almost like an academic
> journal but more
> readable!
>  I ordered these two issues because of two articles
> - one by Brooks Jensen
> on editioning, and one by John Wimberley on 'dealing
> with dealers'. Some of
> you know that I had an unpleasant expereince at a
> Gallery where I was told
> that I could only make 4 copies of an editioned
> print 'for it to be art',
> and that I had to 'make it big'.
> Brooks makes the valid point that editioning is
> solely a marketing ploy and
> that it is better to sell more prints at a lower
> price than artificially
> limit the sale to an arbitrary number of prints.
> John tells a number of horror stories and then
> advocates breaking the
> dealer's monopoly by photographers contacting
> collectors directly.
> Now this last point, to me, is the crux of the
> problem, if editioning only
> benefits dealers, then in order for the photographer
> top benefit, one needs
> to sell directly to collectors. But HOW?? Has anyone
> any thought on this?
> Some people use the internet
> http://www.davebeckerman.com/ for example.
> Anyone else do this?
> 
> Julian
> -----------------------------------
> Julian Thomas
> Bruc 168-6-1
> 08037 Barcelona
> 
> Gallery at
> http://www.mwords.co.uk/galleryGuests.htm#
> and
>
http://www.borderless-photos.de/jthomas/jthomas-01.html
> 
> tfno 679676321
> 
> 
> 
> 


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