Digital BW, The Print

To John Lewis: Thanks for backing me up. Just because a "great" photographer 
signed a matte doesn't mean we have to follow her  poor judgement in 
presentation..  Curators and gallerists are strange breeds - they do get bent out of 
shape when the less-than-famous 
present work in an uneducated manner.
                     Arlene


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I'm curious now.  I've always signed my inkjet prints the same way as the
silver or platinum prints, i.e., under the image area on the print with the
date, in pencil (I don't print with RC papers since I don't like them just
like I didn't like them in the darkroom), and then matted with a window
matte with a little more space in the signature area.  I look at a lot of
prints and have been in a lot of galleries and museums, and have bought a
fair number of prints - I've seen prints signed as above and en verso, but:
I've never seen a print signed on a mat.  What well-known photographers do
this?  Just asking. 

  --Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ArleneLoveL@... [mailto:ArleneLoveL@...] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:58 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: [Digest Number 2886
> 
> 
> To John Lewis: Thanks for backing me up. Just because a 
> "great" photographer signed a matte doesn't mean we have to 
> follow her  poor judgement in presentation..  Curators and 
> gallerists are strange breeds - they do get bent out of shape 
> when the less-than-famous present work in an uneducated manner.

I have prints by John Sexton, Michael Smith and Paula
Chamlee signed on the mat the print is dry mounted on.

Guy
--- Ken Carney <kcarney1@...> wrote:


> I've never seen a print signed on a mat.  What
> well-known photographers do
> this?  Just asking. 
> 
>   --Ken
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ArleneLoveL@...
> [mailto:ArleneLoveL@...] 
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:58 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: [Digest Number 2886
> > 
> > 
> > To John Lewis: Thanks for backing me up. Just
> because a 
> > "great" photographer signed a matte doesn't mean
> we have to 
> > follow her  poor judgement in presentation.. 
> Curators and 
> > gallerists are strange breeds - they do get bent
> out of shape 
> > when the less-than-famous present work in an
> uneducated manner.
> 
> 


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