Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Selling photography question
From: "Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@charter.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:57:56 -0800
References: <p05100309b83dafcba0e6@[10.5.13.92]>

Many years ago at a garage sale in Santa Barbara, CA, the seller, an elderly
lady, upon hearing that I was a photography student showed me and offered to
sell  two small framed images of  bell peppers. Immediately I recognized one
of the two as pepper #29, Weston's work.
Not realizing that the woman was teasing me, since I am a bargain hunter, I
said that the prints could not be authenticated nor would they be worth much
as the signature of the photographer was no were to be seen .
The lady said: "oh you need not be concerned, the signature is on the back
of the print, behind the frame".
Later she told me that some years earlier a man was willing to take the two
photos as down payment for a house that the lady wanted to buy.
I left without the prints.

The point of the story is that as the artist, you decide how you want to
approach the dilemma.
In my opinion, a photograph signed on the frame mat is not a signed
photograph. If the mat is ever changed for whatever reason, the photo
remains unsigned. In printing I like to leave enough blank space around the
image to allow for data and signature just below the image, data on the
left, signature on the right. If in the future your photo should be framed,
the owners would want to display your signature, and mat and frame
accordingly.
I do not like signatures so prominent that they distract from the image,
worse yet signatures on the image itself.

The most important thing, however, is that you are about to sell your first
photographs, congratulations. Don't forget to charge them enough.

Joe Codispoti




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From: "Tristan Tom" <tristan@tristantom.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:10 PM
Subject: [Leica] Selling photography question


> Some people saw one of my images at a corporate gallery and want prints
for
> their homes. This would be my first time selling an image. Question: do I
> sign the print? do I write anything on the back of it? The people just
want
> to buy a print of my image, not framed.
>
> Thanks for any info!
>
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