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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meander@... wrote:

>
> BTW, years ago, on the leben epson list, there was a long discussion
> on what to call "whateveryouwanttocallemcarboninkjet prints". The
> members coined two words, piezograph and piezography. If my memory is
> correct someone then trade marked one of those words. So piezograph
> must still be in public domain. A lot easier to spell than
> whateveryouwanttocallemcarbonorhybriddyeinkjet prints.
>

The Brooklyn Museum Of Art, which had a huge digital show this summer called all the inkjet prints (with
different types of inks, dithers, & rips) 'Inkjet Print'.  So if you are trying to be informational, you
should call them 'Inkjet Prints', with perhaps an addition of the type of ink.  Like 'Pigment Inkjet Print',
or  'Dye-based Inkjet Print' etc.

If you are looking for a marketing ploy, the the world is your oyster in the naming department.  But
academically they are 'inkjet prints'.


Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC



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