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Subject: [Leica] Limited Editions and Pricing
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue Jun 8 07:48:08 2004

At 12:44 PM 6/7/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Slightly OT but somewhat related to the pricing prints thread from last week
>or so....for those of you selling prints, how do you determine whether you 
>are
>going to limit the number of prints of any particular image or not.   And if
>only selling a limited edition, how do you set a number?  I sometimes see
>folks limiting to 20 others up to 100 or so.  Is the number just a matter of
>throwing a dart at a dartboard?  marketing?   wishful thinking?
>
>tia
>kim

Kim -

Here is an article about editions of photographic prints:

http://bermangraphics.com/artshows/photographysrole.htm

It's a marketing decision.  Here is a quote from the article:

As for limited editions, the older prints are not editioned because Alfred 
Stieglitz, Edward Steichen or any of the other photographers from that 
period werent editioning. Modern photographs would have more monetary value 
if they were in editions, but that wouldnt make them any less of an 
original photograph. EDITIONING IS A MARKETING TOOL that contemporary 
photographers started doing as early as the 1970s to basically make their 
prints more rare. It has nothing to do with originality. There are 
photographers like William Klein, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gordon Parks, 
that were printing in the 1950s and are still selling prints today, that 
dont edition. Yet Cartier-Bressons photographs continue to increase in 
price and break auction records despite the fact that theyre not editioned.

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
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