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Subject: [Leica] Is Eggleston in the right? What is the meaning of "limited edition"?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:44:40 -0400

My unfortunate example which implies an Edward Weston complicates and blurs
the issue as his sons Cole and Brett did his prints after he was stricken
with Parkinson's under his rather close supervision and they go for tens of
thousands and no one complains. That kind of thing like this pretty much
stands alone.  Also my term" cranking out" does not fill the bill as you say
as to make a serious print is not at all factory like and requires a lot of
time and water and wasted paper.

Ansel A. was excited by the idea that after he was dead people would be
making prints from his not destroyed negs with "Laser beams."
In other words technologies away from the tradition darkroom slodge and
drudge. - involving stuff we can only imagine.
It did not worry him that they may not in effect do the in effect dodging
and burning right or if the executors of his estate lost money.
I think as a result they made have made not lost money -  you can scan  one
of his negs on the latest cutting edge scanner they'll invent tomorrow.
This excites not offends me. And I'll gong to emulate that approached.
Assuming that when the time comes anybody gives a rats ass about my  body
of work.





On 4/10/13 10:40 AM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:14 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Why buy Pepper #6 for huge bucks if the artist is still alive cranking
>> them out? Or his son is?
> 
> Except that "cranking out" dismisses the actual amount of time and 
> materials
> required to make a print which its creator would actually sign.
> 
> What is the total number of Pepper #6 prints in existence?
> How many prints of Pepper #6 did Edward Weston make and sign himself?
> How many did another family member make and sign?
> 
> I'd guess that Pepper #6 prints
> in fine condition
> signed by a Weston
> remain relatively rare.
> Why?
> Because it's not all that easy to make a fine print.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
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> 
> 
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