I think you would be unnecessarily limiting future sales. I think limited edition photographs are a silly idea. You could, perhaps, do a limited edition of a certain style of print, say platinum or something similarly exotic, but you would need to make it quite clear that it was a particular set of prints made in a certain way that was limited, not the picture itself.
The photography market has anyway found its own way of putting a premium on certain categories of print. Vintage prints made by HCB in the 30s are more valuable than technically better ones made recently by M. Gassmann, for example. Same with vintage prints by someone like AA. If (when :o)) you reach the stellar heights of these 2, the prints you've produced now will be astronomically valuable whether or not the edition is labelled 'limited', simply because they are being produced in small quantities by necessity. Photographs are rather like Japanese woodblock prints in this respect. Prints by people like Hiroshige were produced in great numbers and sold cheaply, but time has its own way of limiting editions, so originals are now quite scarce and valuable. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Buhler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 May 2006 04:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Limited edition prints? > > 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 > > -- > Juan Buhler > Water Molotov: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com Slippery Slope: > http://color.jbuhler.com > > > >
