Digital BW, The Print

Frank:

Nice diplomatic response; however, I believe "dumb" is a rather rude 
way to refer to a traditional technique or its practitioners, and it 
does indeed show a lack of sophistication. Regarding signed mats, 
again, if that's dumb, then someone needs to take it up with the 
masters. (I won't burden you with a litany of
famous photographers who have chosen the convention of signing their 
front mat. You sign your mats, and, trust me, you are therefore in good 
company.  Whether there's room for experimentation in the middle of 
this digital paradigm shift is an entirely different discussion.  
However, trust me, as a photographer, you can't go wrong signing the 
front mat.  (And yes, with a pencil.)

Regards, Peter G.


On Feb 23, 2005, at 8:35 PM, njfranknj wrote:

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> I agree with Arlene that signing on the matte or anywhere else other
> than the print itself is dumb, but I do it anyway because it is
> conventional and it doesn't cost me anything. I also include a printed
> notice as evidence of my authorship as part of the print itself,
> outside the image area. The one time I signed a print in the image
> area, in a gallery while preparing to present the framed piece to a
> commissioning client, the gallery's damn silver pen skipped, I botched
> my signature and I was and have been mortified to this day, 10 years
> later, so I'm rather shy of visibly putting my hand to a finished 
> piece.
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> Also, since my autograph is not collectible and I feel no duty to
> posterity to suppose that it ever will be, signing the matte seems
> harmless and I don't mount my prints in such a way as to expose the
> notice/title/signature applied to them - that serves another purpose.
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> Frank
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Gorwin
> <pshelleyg@c...> wrote:
>> Well, Arlene, if it's so Dumb, why have some of the greatest
>> photographers in history signed on their mats?
>> Sounds to me like you don't go to enough galleries.  Get educated.
>> Peter G.
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