Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tristantom: > 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. i usually sign and date IN PENCIL on the back. i don't like to sign on the front, and have gotten into arguments with people who want me to. i have no idea why i insist on being so difficult. i guess i'm trying to do some sort of reductionist thing with nothing-but-the-image-blah-blah-blah. of course, one could argue that the signature is part of the image. a signed avedon, for instance, is worth more than a non-signed avedon. many photographers also write on/in their pictures, adding commentary, context, concepts, connotations, contrarians, constipation, corellative adjectives, conspiracy theorists, constantinople (or istanbul), and/or confusion. but, of course, it's up to you. if you do want to sign on the front, the general rule is, i think, signature in the lower right-hand border and title/series number in the lower left. if you don't have borders, then i guess you could sign the matte. hell, you can spray-paint a big ole dot in the middle and call that your signature--it might work! it will look more "artsy" if you sign it. your customers might like that. but don't let your customers bully you. what is it max von sydow's character says to the rock star searching for a painting to go over his couch in _hannah and her sisters_? "i don't sell my art by the foot" or something like that. - --darb - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg "I helped in the rape of a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street." --General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.), 1931 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html