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Re: [Digital BW] Re:signing

2005-02-24 by Peter Gorwin

On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:18 AM, John C. Lewis wrote:

>
>  According to severalhighly respected curators of photographs at a 
> major world-class
> museum, "It is customary that a print either be signed front or
> verso, or both if chosen. Never on the matt. Reason being is that
> a matt can be transferred along with it's signature to another
> work which could consequently attribute that piece to the signor".
> The intellectual community is concerned with such practices.

You don't know what you're talking about. Name your sources.  Is this 
like " a ranking official."
Here's a photography museum to check into.  Ask for Arthur, he's the 
curator.  He'll set you strait.

http://www.mopa.org

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