There are tons of debates about the value of "Limited Editions" in
the photographic art community. My feelings are that it is nonsense,
at this point anyway. All editions are limited, most "limited
editions" are never fully printed anyway. I wouldn't print more than
10 copies in any event, to start with. Perhaps call it a Limited
edition with the notion that only 25 or 50 prints of each image max
will be permitted, presuming orders reach so far.
The book you've produced is itself a limited edition, unless you plan
to do another print run when you sell out of them.
Godfrey
On Apr 30, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Juan Buhler wrote:
Hi all,
Someone at my opening on Friday asked if my prints were part of a
limited edition. They aren't--I think that whole concept is a bit
silly. It was silly when using negatives, it is even sillier now,
printing digitally.
Now, I actually haven't printed more than 4 or 5 of any of my
photographs. So making them limited editions of 50, or even 25, would
be easy (and meaningless.) It seems like this would add "value" to my
pictures though, for some reason not really related to their content.
I'm actually thinking about doing this--meaningless as it is, it's
also free for me...
What are the thoughts of the list about this?
Cheers,
j
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Juan Buhler
Water Molotov: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
Slippery Slope: http://color.jbuhler.com
