Veli and Trev,
I almost dropped my teeth too upon seeing in a museum HCB and I believe Brassai prints signed large and across the image area. There is no single answer for how to sign. It is a matter of personal taste or vanity rather than trade practice. A rubber stamp with various cataloging info made for the back of the mat or photo is a common practice. The archivists and serious collectors will bless you. The dealers and ego-driven collectors will appreciate a flamboyant sig right on the picture itself - I recommend a metallic gold Sharpie for best effect (the one you use to sign autographs). There are also embossing tools (printer's chops) to really show you are a serious artist - I'm always impressed by those. I think text built into the neg or file is stricly for commercial work.
I've always put a "Zoro" slash. diagonally across the upper, right quarter of the image.
AZ
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Subject: Re: How to sign a photograph + tangent
From: trevor cunningham <tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, July 24, 2006 5:11 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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After viewing some AMAZING/HUMBLING/MAKE ME WISH I NEVER PICKED UP A CAMERA prints from a handful of masters at the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe, I can say (I've since regained the ability to speak and be seen in public after the experience) that a number of these guys/gals signed the mattes. Perhaps the logic goes as follows: What's more important, the print or your name on it?On an aside, as related to signing prints, has any celebrated photographer ever burned their signature into a print (ie, made a stencil for use with an enlarger)... i've seen plenty of digiprints with the like, always thought it was kinda cheesy...but on a silver print could be a little more organic (IMO)
Veli Izzet Cigirgan <veli.izzet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi all,I want to sign some photographs printed on glossy paper with a fuji frontier. I prefer not to sign ob the matte, as it may be detached.Can anybody tell what pen to use, and it is really a good practice to sign on the glossy print.Thanks for the answers,Veli Izzet Cigirgan
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