Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The original photographer's artistic work selling model seems to follow the Art World's model... There is only 1, so if you want it, you pay the big bucks. Every work is original. The truth is that the amount of work involved in making a artwork ( take traditional oil painting as the example ) is extremely large. Making copies involves no further savings in time spent other than a little in developing the idea and the overall design. Every brush stroke requires the same amount of work for "copies". There are days to weeks to months involved in the execution. The photographer can turn out prints #1 to #100 in a shrot period of time. The actual time spent is in the order of minutes, not days or weeks. So the real pricing model can be diffeent. I suggest a read through the recent Lenswork articles whereby they are promoting the idea opf Photogravures as a way to sell work at lower cost, but with improved quality over cheapo printing..... I must agree, that the idea of spreading out your work to a larger audience is better than to milk a select few rich folk. As an addendum to this, have any of you heard of a print swap? Apparently there is a big-wig version in N.Cal every year, by invitation only. The cost of all prints is fixed at 1:1. No cash swaps hands. What a wonderful way to collect somone else's work, but to trade for your own work. Works for me...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net