It has been longer time, since I wrote here. I must say that reason was
simple, I didn't want to write just anything only because I have to. Well I
do not have to, but I like to write when I have something to tell.
Maybe your remember when I was writing that
Daniel Staver was pointing me to
photography magazine
LensWork. I am
more and more enjoying that magazine and most articles which comes on
attached CD or those I downloaded from theri web site.
One which particularly strikes me was on the CD. Maybe you also remember
that I am preparing my web site for a lot of changes. One reason for that
is that I like to start selling my work on eBay. I sold few prints already
to friends, colleagues and lately to few people who saw my work at last
exhibition. Those prints are marked as numbered prints from limited
edition. As I never sell my photographs before I had feeling that this is
the way how it should be. But I didn't feel really comfortable with saying
that I will not print more than fifty or hundred copies of certain print.
Why would I. Maybe I never get to so many copies and maybe I just do not
want and maybe I like to make more before I get tired of that particular
print.
That, few days ago I have read article
What Size is the
Edition written by Brooks Jensen and published by
LensWork magazine. He has a great idea
which I am going to follow. Instead of doing limited edition he propse to
prints multiple edition of the same image.
So with a certain skills and technology (paper, developer,...) in one run
you print let say 5-10 prints of the same image in one go. Those will be
market as first edition of this image and will be numbered 1/10 - 10/10 of
the first edition. As you skills improve or you start using different paper
or technology and you able to produced better quality of the same image you
can make second edition. And so on as one wish. Maybe later on you move to
digital and you will produced prints with as carbon pigment prints. So make
a third edition. Each prints will be marked and signed and will carry
description how and when it was made.
This way authenticity is guaranteed, print is uniquely identified and
nobody limits anything. Later collectors (if that happen) can be maybe
looking for you particular image from the fifth print edition which was
made with unique paper and in very big size in only four copies.
I really like this idea. Read the article and you find more
interesting ides there or on
LensWork web page or magazine itself.
