Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Beyond the name: selling prints/ cross posted

2001-12-02 by Todd Flashner

I'm readying a portfolio of whateveryouwanttocallemcarboninkjet prints
(MISprints in my case) to show to galleries and "art consultants", and I'm
starting to think about the issue of pricing and editioning.

I'm curious about how those of you who've walked this path before me have
researched the issues and made the decisions you've made.

Do you price them similarly to how you'd price the same print in Silver
Gelatin? Did you research online galleries to see what similar works go for
(in my case I'd say unestablished artists selling inkjet photography)? Any
good sites to recommend?

On editioning, one thing that has me be hesitant to edition is that I hate
to lock myself into one interpretation of my image. If I decide to
manipulate the file differently in the future, or change my materials, that
would either be a violation of my edition, or the launch of a new edition I
suppose. I just feel like what I establish for these images now will
determine my flexibility down the road, and I hate to lock myself in
creatively. Any thoughts on that?

Those of you who do show your work, I suppose interest in inkjet/piezo
technology runs the gamut depending on the interests of any given
curator/dealer. Do any of you have stories to share on that good or bad?
Sometimes (mostly?) interest in a work will be much more driven by the
content of the image itself opposed to the process, true or false?

Anyway, not looking for hard answers per se, just fishing for thoughts,
opinions, stories form the trenches....

Todd

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.