Digital BW, The Print

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

Other art comes in limited editions - Degas' Bronzes for example or Goya's
or Picassos etchings


> 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.

Bastard child limited edition photographs that sell for over half a million
dollars says to me they are pretty well accepted by the art world

(and my gallery is happy to sell my own limited editions for $4,000 a
piece...)

Bear in mind as well that in the past many photographers just followed a
practice that in effect gave open ended editions

> Help! Not another discussion on limited editions? ;)

Good discussion here though

http://www.dpandi.com/essays/jensen.html

Yep!

THOSE are copies though.  That was their point.

These are from the original file, therefore limitless.

Seth 

==-----Original Message-----
==From: Tim Atherton [mailto:timatherton@...] 

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==Other art comes in limited editions - Degas' Bronzes for 
==example or Goya's or Picassos etchings
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