Digital BW, The Print

Any fine art photographers successful in getting digital prints accepted for
sale in galleries, high end art fairs, etc? Strange, I can make a
"perfected" negative, could use for contact printing forty+ Silver prints in
an afternoon, and these would be considered hand made original prints.  The
fact is that digital prints, no matter how excellent the image or the
printing, are somehow considered mechanical "reproductions" with relatively
little value.  This fact, taken with the continuous print improvements
discussed in this forum, make me feel that we are in the midst of a major
and irreversible change in the way photographic prints are perceived by the
buying public, a change which will probably not be beneficial to those of us
who sell prints.  Any thoughts?

Just returned from a holiday in 
Antigua and visted a lovely art gallery called Kate  Spenser. she is 
an English artist who married a man form St Kitts many years ago  
and has been painting lustrous pa9nitngs in the caribbean ever 
since . She has two  high end  classy galleries  that I know of,.  
the one in Antigua I visited and one where she lives in St kitts.  
All her work now is only available in 40 x 60 or even larger giclee 
prints in editions or 50 for 650$ US and they sell like hotcakes!
  Seems it is not a problem if you are  a painter. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, J Vee 
<j.vee@g...> wrote:
> Any fine art photographers successful in getting digital prints 
accepted for
> sale in galleries, high end art fairs, etc? Strange, I can make a
> "perfected" negative, could use for contact printing forty+ Silver 
prints in
> an afternoon, and these would be considered hand made original 
prints.  The
> fact is that digital prints, no matter how excellent the image or 
the
> printing, are somehow considered mechanical "reproductions" with 
relatively
> little value.  This fact, taken with the continuous print 
improvements
> discussed in this forum, make me feel that we are in the midst of 
a major
> and irreversible change in the way photographic prints are 
perceived by the
> buying public, a change which will probably not be beneficial to 
those of us
> who sell prints.  Any thoughts?