[Leica] How do limited edition digital prints work?

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

This is exactly the point I was going to make.... There was a "limited 
edition" of a show I did years back - 20 prints in 16x20.? I'd never done 
anything like, didn't much like the idea, but asked "so what happens when 
buyer 21 arrives?" 

The answer was educational.? "These are 16x20; we'll do an edition in 16 1/8 
x 19 7/8s and cut the mat a little different."

Didn't need to worry, really.? Total of 3 prints sold.


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R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


>________________________________
> From: Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 1:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] How do limited edition digital prints work?
> 
>This is, to me, the fallacy of the whole limited edition thing in 
>photographs. A particularly hungry photographer can produce an unlimited 
>number of artists proofs at any time, and no one except George numbers 
>them. Then, most commercial galleries consider each size an edition, 
>therefore a "limited" Edition of nay number sells out? Great, then print it 
>bigger and charge more. Bloom on rose fading? Print smaller, sell cheaper 
>and collect more. I have quite numbering my prints for these reasons. It's 
>all a scam by galleries/dealers whose motives may not be pure.
>
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