Simple solution is not to number them at all. Each is different and an original. Ask yourself what are the chances that print is going to become so famous that collectors around the world are going to bid up the price because of its known limited supply. Ansel Adams has "limited editions" but there are hundreds of other prints from the same negative floating around but people pay the big bucks because they like the image instead of the fact of a purported limited number of prints.
George Johnson
>
> From: Bill William <iodideshi@yahoo.co.jp>
> Date: 2004/07/01 Thu AM 07:50:03 GMT
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: RE: Editioning
>
> --- Kate M <kateb@paradise.net.nz> ?????????
>
> Thanks Judy, Kate, Lisa for this topic and the comments...
> .
> I often face a similar situation. In my work, each print
> is a unique piece, In spite of being printed from the same
> orginal negative...
>
> (sort of like a painter who paints the same subject in the
> "same way" multiple times...?)
>
> One problem with 1-6 rather than 1/6 method... If someone
> is trying to limit your collection, say to increase its
> sale (resale) value, just looking at that number gives no
> indication that it is in fact a limited edition.
>
> Or is there a solution to this?
>
> Ray
>
>
> > Lisa, I always call my gum prints unique state,
> > simply because even with
> > the best timing under artificial light, my prints
> > never, just never,
> > look exactly the same - this is one of the
> > characteristics of gum (I
> > have been told). So I will number my prints as 1 of
> > 6 rather than 1/6.
> > This is in line with a traditional printmaking
> > strategy for numbering
> > editions of prints that are not exactly the same.
> > Cheers
> > Kate
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lisa Reddig [mailto:lisa@julianrichards.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2004 2:57 a.m.
> > To: Alternative
> > Subject: Editioning
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a gum editioning question. Please follow me
> > through my printing
> > process to the query I have....
>
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