Sunday, April 25, 2004
Here's an interesting article by Larry Berman regarding editioning of photographs and as a rebuttal to an article in Sunshine Artist Magazine.
There's also a good article on editioning as a marketing tool in Lenswork Magazine by Brooks Jensen. I really like his point of view of photography, how it is a democratic art form, that is accessible to many. He discusses how editioning of photographs is an arbitrary marketing tool, done to artificially jack up the price of photographs. Which in turns makes photography an elitist art form which fewer people can afford to buy allowing fewer artist the ability to make a living through print sales because the number of people who can afford to buy decreases.
Brooks Jensen had another article a couple years ago that laid out a vision he had of photographs being more like records or CDs. How so many people buy them and they are not limited. And by selling more you can keep the price down enabling more people to buy. That really hit home with me, since I've been in bands.
This is why selling on ebay appeals to me. I can keep my expenses down and keep my prices down, and my hope is, in time I can create a large enough body of sellable images to make a living from selling them.
There's also a good article on editioning as a marketing tool in Lenswork Magazine by Brooks Jensen. I really like his point of view of photography, how it is a democratic art form, that is accessible to many. He discusses how editioning of photographs is an arbitrary marketing tool, done to artificially jack up the price of photographs. Which in turns makes photography an elitist art form which fewer people can afford to buy allowing fewer artist the ability to make a living through print sales because the number of people who can afford to buy decreases.
Brooks Jensen had another article a couple years ago that laid out a vision he had of photographs being more like records or CDs. How so many people buy them and they are not limited. And by selling more you can keep the price down enabling more people to buy. That really hit home with me, since I've been in bands.
This is why selling on ebay appeals to me. I can keep my expenses down and keep my prices down, and my hope is, in time I can create a large enough body of sellable images to make a living from selling them.
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