From: Kate Mahoney (kateb@paradise.net.nz)
Date: 09/13/03-01:28:45 AM Z
In traditional printmaking terms, 1/1 would mean that the edition was of
one, but further editions could be made from the same image if they were
different from the original edition in some way. A compromise which is used
by some printmakers who make, say etchings inked up a la poupee which differ
slightly between each print, is to make the edition ""1 of 10" in stead of
1/10 (which seems a bit odd but that's what they do!) or whatever the full
number is. If you should decide to edition the images again, and it was
different in colour or there was an alteration, you could make it a "second
state" edition. I have never made ANY gum prints that are exactly alike even
from the same image with the same emulsion in the same light on the same day
with the same development!!!! So I guess that makes them "monoprints". I use
the same strategy for numbering liquid light prints in different formats
from the öriginal"as the brush marks make each an unique image.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: "Gum Joy", monoprints, and sizes
> EWRPhoto@aol.com wrote:
>
> > About the monoprint thing.....I guess John Stevenson meant unique
> > pieces.....but even that is not necessarily the case, because I have
> > made variables of several of the prints.
>
>
> This is interesting, and brings up a question. I had a gallery that for
> a while insisted on putting "1/1" on the tags by my work, and I made
> them stop it, because while I almost always make just one print of each
> image, I don't want to close the option if sometime I decide I want to
> make another one. But sometimes I get the idea that what they mean by
> "unique" is that since it's handmade, it won't be exactly like another
> print even if it's made from the same negative. So which is it, can it
> be "1/1" or "monoprint" even if you print the same image again? The way
> I've thought about this is the past, my answer has been no, 1/1 means
> this is the only print that will be made from this image. Would be
> interested in thoughts on this.
> Katharine
>
>
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