Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> If you plan to sell art prints, some galleries or even photo art > magazines > (B/W) only accept traditional B/W processes. But this is changing faster than you might think. Ten days ago I was at ParisPhoto, a large annual photo fair at the Carousel du Louvre, in which over 100 galleries from all over the world participate: there were a lot of digital prints, particularly very large prints. While galleries that deal with vintage prints obviously had only silver prints, the many galleries that had digital prints did not have to explain why or what type of digital prints they had. In other words, no reason to "feel ashamed" about digital prints. And most potential print buyers that I saw milling around the galleries did not ask anything about prints being digital -- they just looked at the prints and discussed the photographer and prices with the galleries. The week before at FIAC, the large international annual art fair in Paris, I met a gallery from Milan that deals ONLY with digital prints --- and this gallery was participating in FIAC which is a fair mainly for paintings. Also, speaking with photo galleries I found that they wanted, or expected to, receive photos to look at by e-mail. In the case of my current series this is the only practical thing as my pictures are 1x2 meters (40x80 inches). After I showed them 4x6 inch digital photos of the large pictures --only good enough to get an idea of the scale -- the galleries that were interested all asked for me to send them jpeg files of the large pictures by e-mail. ---Mitch/Bangkok