Re: editions

Cris - while I do not disagree with your analysis, I think that photographic editioning can be as straight forward as printmaking. I edition my photos exactly like my prints. A bad photo goes into the garbage.

I have not decided if a separate edition in a different size is appropriate yet. I am still working on that but do not think I have a problem with it.

However, as I wrote earlier, full disclosure is the key. If an artist is out front with the buyer and the buyer has no problem with what the artist is doing then fine. If a photographer does not want to edition but wants to print an unlimited number, that is okay by me and I have no problem with that. Good luck. If however, a photographer editions and pulls editions on more than one size, then as long as that is noted on the disclosure form, that is also okay.

For example, if I pull an 11x14 edition of 25 (my usual edition size), and want to pull another edition of 10 at 20x30, as long as that is disclosed, then okay. Simple and straight forward usually works. We can come up with all of the systems and adaptations we want but the bottom line is keeping faith with the buyer. As long as they know what the artist is doing then no one else should have a problem with it.
Cheers
Ray

> My experience is also with printmaking and photography. The editioning process in printmaking is generally perfectly sensible and straight forward. The darn plate wears out, or something like that.
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> To me, one of the wonderful side effects of photography is that it is a 'democratic medium' and theoretically one can make an almost unlimited number of prints from a negative.
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> In photography, I have found, editioning does not mean that there will be only x number of prints. It means there will only be x number of prints in this particular size, or on this particular paper, or prints made during a full moon, etc.
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> It is totally artificial, arbitrary and seems to be designed only to appease collectors and or galleries. As far as I know, there is not one standard, and the introduction of digital printing has only complicated matters.
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> My take on it is to do it only as a business decision, and not an artistic one.
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Received on Fri Dec 21 14:51:25 2001