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what do i call them?
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I have had some digital photos printed off on good quality paper using a large format printer and as i will be selling these photos as limited editions I’m not to sure what to call them. DO i call them (1) limited edition digital prints (2) limited edition digital photographic prints (3) limited edition prints. Any advice /help would be gratefully appreciated.
Limited edition prints. On what type of camera/medium it was taken on is irrelevant really, its a photograph :)
Mark, I’m not sure that ‘Limited Edition’ means very much,
unless the plates or negatives are destroyed after the print run,
or the picture is the work of an important established artist.Though that won’t stop people using the term-
A print will always be referred to by the printing process and the medium,
such as ‘Inkjet print on paper’, Inkjet print on Canvas’, ‘Iris print’ or whatever-For marketing purposes, you might prefer to translate it into French, and call it ‘Giclée’, or whatever you like,
but not many are fooled anymore, and it’s still an inkjet…A photographic print might refer to a photochemical process,
rather than one which involves spraying dye or pigment onto a substrate-
Though again, what people call things is up to them-joseph
I agree with Joseph on this. ‘Limited Edition’ is very hard to police and I would always be very skeptical of this unless I saw some sort of verifiable documentation to prove it was indeed ‘limited’. Digital imaging is a particularly difficult one to control because who is to say that the same file/photograph, with some minor adjustments, is not a whole new image to be rerun as another ‘limited edition’.
Even before digital, if a cut up negative was not presented at the exhibition, then the worthiness of this phrase will be questioned.
Print no 23/50, not too sure!Well Iris has decided that they will be limited. So I’m making an assumption that there will
be some control around that. My answer was really about which term to use from her list.I totally agree that Limited can be interpreted many many different ways.
Worthy of a thread of its own that discussion :)Mark wrote:
Well Iris has decided that they will be limited. So I’m making an assumption that there will
be some control around that. My answer was really about which term to use from her list.I totally agree that Limited can be interpreted many many different ways.
Worthy of a thread of its own that discussion :)I don’t doubt her integrity, I’m referring to general perception (including my own)
Time to go off and listen to our Minister for Finance. He’s just starting on the radio now. :?
Thanks everyone for your replies. “limited edition prints” it is so. I’m not trying to fool anyone, or sell my images as something they are not, i’m just trying to to sell them as is, “as it says on the tin”, No french. I just want them to be right. The limited edition issue is very hard to police in some cases, but I’m the police person in this case and i have to guarantee my customers that they are “limited editions”, they have to take my word for it. The pictures are numbered, and signed by me. I might not be an important established artist just yet, but i want to start out as i intend to continue. bty, just for the record, “SHE is a HE”.
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