Re: Value of digital prints in the future

[Kim Mosley <mrkimmosley@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is my understanding that with etchings (like what Rembrandt did) they are more valuable with earlier numbers because the plate wears down. Lithographs are the same no matter what part they are of an edition (like photographs).

Kim

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:32 AM, <PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I know of a case where an photographer started an edition in dye and had a printing company  do the printing. Photographer had the prints printed up only when he sold them. Over time the  printing company got tired of keeping the old dye machine around when they had moved on to pigment prints. Thus the later numbered prints in the edition had a more archival life span than the earlier numbered one printed on dye. So the reverse of the lithograph editions where the earlier numbered prints in an edition are more valuable becomes true in the technological advancements in printing.

Roy

 

In a message dated 11/4/2010 4:07:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dd-b@xxxxxxxx writes:

older art print
techniques like wood-blocks wear significantly with use; more than a photo
negative does).

 

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