Digital BW, The Print

Help! Not another discussion on limited editions? ;)

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Kale" <stevekale@...>

> Limited editions in any number are a rational reason why photography is 
> the
> bastard child
> of the artworld.

Wow this is a  bit much.  Because, unlike the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
or the Mona Lisa, a photographic image today is readily replicable, it is a
rational precursor that photography today requires a covenant of copy
limitation in order to be taken seriously as art.  Some photographs have
sold for very "important prices".  The important, older, scarcer items
continue to appreciate in price.  Photography is still very new.