Having run a gallery, I have to advise you all what a small world we live in. There is little that happens outside the gallery, that doesn't get back to the gallery people. In fact, that's a good thing. So, examine your own ethics when you gooutside or around your gallery, usually secured with a contract. If you feel the gallery doesn't have the print, size or otherwise, that you may want to sell a client, have the gallery buy your prints. If you have an exposition only contract, go for the outside sales. Otherwise, get it established how the gallery wants to represent you and your work. We had an area exclusive. All work sold, represented inside the gallery in any copied or varied form went through us. Other views, or portrolios exhibited or in print that we did not have in our gallery were propriety of the artist. Rarely did a second size print go up for sale by such demand, but on that occasion since we brought in the client we got the sale. We had some verbal agreements, some written. Both were forgotten when the money came to thecounter; it was my job to remember all those inuendos and take the flack. That I did, and not exclusively my own prints. I could have sold more of my own, and can recall only two print sales I lost that I could have made. It's the ethics of thething and the agreement with the gallery. Steve S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn" <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:34 PM Subject: Gallery sales > Hi Photoforum Members: > > Do those of you who sell at galleries have different sized gallery prints > available for customers who want a displayed print in a different size? Do > you keep or display a price list for the different sized prints? > > Do you sell copies of the displayed prints without matting, mounting and > frames, or is the print hanging in the gallery the only one for sale at that > time? > > I'd appreciate your comments, please. > > Marilyn > >
