Digital BW, The Print

This whole issue is extremely interesting to me, as I deal with this daily.
The reality is that many of us cannot continue to follow our love of fine
art photography unless it supports itself financially.  Thus, I plead guilty
to ³the ed 1, ed 2, and editions up to 50 + AP¹s².  I also plead guilty to
being aware of my market through the whole process of image creation and
printing.  I sell the images that I deeply love in both fine art fairs and
galleries as well as I can, everything from 75 cent postcards to very large
prints up to 48 X 72² prints on Photorag ($600 -$800).  For myself, I enjoy
meeting and talking to the potential customers very much (Art Fairs),
somehow it is about sharing the love of these prints, whether I have done
them in traditional hand made Carbon pigment or inkjet (I usually say
microthermal in my case by the way).  Each person¹s situation is so
different that it is impossible to come to any kind of overall consensus on
this I think.  J Vee

On 3/10/05 9:10 PM, "hill14701" <hill14701@...> wrote:

> 
> Limited editions in any number are a rational reason why photography is the
> bastard child 
> of the artworld.  My local college gallery hosts an annual student show, and
> the director 
> also purchases a small number of works for the permanent collection.  His one
> comment is that he pays less for photography, as it is infinately reproducable
> (and 
> therefore not unique).  Unfortunately, this also means that he purchases
> cruddy paintings 
> for 4X the price of one truly beautiful BW print.
> 



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