Digital BW, The Print

Todd, price your inkjets at the same price as silver. As far as editioning
goes... I was in the Focus gallery in London last week. There were som
ereally nice still life work - the owner took me downstairs to show me more
of this guys work. Each one was editioned out of 15, but each
interpretation - there were several takes/tones/papers on the same image -
was editioned 1/15! Think about increasing your prices as the edition goes
through. BTW Focus have no problems with inkjet.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Flashner" <tflash@...>
To: <piezography3000@yahoogroups.com>;
<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Beyond the name: selling prints/ cross posted


> 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
>
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