Posted by cav (65.58.108.214) on September 19, 2003 at 20:35:04:
In Reply to: Re: signed prints posted by AnonFTP on September 19, 2003 at 16:46:19:
Well, to know me and my style you would have thought I wrote that - lol
But, I have this Anal-technical side that says ... If I am going to produce a limited print I should number them (sign to authenticate?) there sould mbe some marking that prooves I am not just scamming people and cranking out thousands .... thus the delima
I have never done the limited run before ... it is just a thought ...
As far as signing them, I think it is tacky, gaudy, and just plain ruins the image ... so Whach Gonna do - right?
thanx for the imput Guys
Here's one of my favorite quotes of Alfred Stieglitz, and what he thought about all this . . . speaking of another time - a thought for our era, as well?
: _____________________
: "I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight - and I'll fight to the finish - single handed & without money if need be. It is not photographs - it is not photograhers - I am fighting for. And my own photographs I never sign. I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight. This sounds mad. But so is CameraWork mad. All that's born of spirit seems mad in these [days] of materialism run riot."
: Alfred Stieglitz to J. Dudley Johnston
: 15 October 1923