adin@frontier.net
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:36:44 +0000
Bob, Dick Sullivan, ?
true definition of "Vintage" print?
Made by the photographer?
Made by the photographer at the time the negative was made?
or ?
thanks
> DEAR RICHARD,
> Yes, I know that New York requires galleries to give a disclosure
> statement (or did in1993 when I moved out) with each print sale.
> PLEASE NEVER DESTROY NEGATIVES: They are historical documents and many will
> be of social and cultural significance that we cannot imagine. It won't hurt
> having around those which are not significant as a price to pay to preserve
> those that are but only posterity can judge...not us... so keep them safe.
> There is a standard procedure for all of this. The negative(s) are
> retired to a vault for 100 years, I believe as a lawyers escrow arrangement
> (Not certain of this part) when the edition is finished.
> I feel certain that, except for those on Mount Olympus, none of us will be
> around to make any more prints OF OUR OWN NEGATIVES! These are the vintage
> prints. If a museum or anyone else makes many new prints, they only serve
> to INCREASE THE FAME AND VALUE OF THE ORIGINAL, VINTAGE, LIMITED EDITION
> PRINTS made, signed, and numbered, by the hand of the original
> photographer! They do not dilute the value of the originals...they ENHANCE
> it. This has been proven repeatedly. And the negatives are still there for
> historical, educational, and cultural research.
>
> CHEERS!
> BOB KISS
>
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