Digital BW, The Print

You might find this PDF interesting:
http://www.ctphoto.com/whatsizeistheedition.pdf

Mark

On Mar 10, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Carolyn Frayn wrote:

> On 3/10/05 12:50 AM, "steve208242" sent the following verbage:
>
>  > For the first time I have been invited to contribute to a group
>  > selling show. I will be supplying the gallery with 4 b/w images from
>  > my epson 4000, the images will be 20" on the long side and framed in
>  > 80cm x 60 cm frames, titled, numbered (350 in the edition) and 
> signed.
>  >
>  > I will be offering smaller prints of these images (12" on the long
>  > side). My question is... do I start the edition sequence again for 
> the
>  > smaller prints? ie: another edition of 350 prints for the smaller
>  > size. What is the norm in these situations.
>  >
>  > Apologies if it's a stupid question... I'm new to this gallery 
> thing.
>
>  So am I, but a gallery contacted me this year out of the blue, I have 
> eight
>  pieces that have been up since April 11 and will continue to be 
> exhibited
>  thru the end of March. I asked friends their opinions on editioning 
> and
>  numbers, as they've had experience.. The gallery wanted this work 
> editioned
>  and I've always thought it primarily focused on prints that change 
> thru the
>  print run due to the degradation of the plates etc. Not to prints 
> that will
>  in essence be the same throughout, and are not printed at the same 
> time.
>
>  I chose to edition the eight images in the series in sets of 20, 
> available
>  in two sizes, 11 x 14 and 16 x 20, 20 each size size. Some have an 
> open size
>  policy, set the edition number, and then sell the print size 
> requested, no
>  matter the size, the edition number then increases. I gather there 
> are no
>  set rules, and that it's all about marketing. But one thing that all 
> agreed
>  upon, was to keep the editions small in number.
>
>  The smaller prints, 8x10, of the same series are open ended.
>
>  Good luck with your show.
>  Carolyn
>
>
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