by Alain Briot
My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative,prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike,and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper.To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.
Alfred Stieglitz
1 - Introduction
This essay stems from my ongoing reflection on the subject of limited edition prints. To limit or not to limit, that is the question, is how I start the essay. How I end it is to be found by reading this essay.
The essay also comes out of what I see as the increasing importance of the "limited edition debate", for lack of a better term (there's really no specific name for this debate which is mostly informal, though important, at this time).
The "clincher'", for me was the realization that at a time of constant technical improvements, limiting and conseq...
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Alain Briot creates fine art photographs, teaches workshops and offers DVD tutorials on composition, raw conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition and Marketing Fine Art Photography. All 3 books are available from Alain’s website as well as from most bookstores.
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