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Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)

2001-10-06 by Julian Thomas

Thanks jennifer I'll order it!

J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Drucker" <jdrucker@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)


> The piece on editioning was this year #36 July/August 2001 titled "What
size is the Edition"  by Brooks Jensen
>
> - J :)
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Julian Thomas
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 3:05 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)
>
>
>   Thanks Steve, I'll order that copy. Anyone know the issue number that
had
>   the piece on editioning?
>
>   Julian
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: <sdmey4@...>
>   To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>   Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 8:54 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Dealing with Dealers!- was gallery(RANT)
>
>
>   > There is a very interesting article" Dealing with Dealers" in the
current
>   > issue of Lenswork written by John Wimberley! A photographer who has
made
>   his
>   > living for more than 20 years from gallery print sales. He relates
>   > experiences with 40 dealers/galleries throughout his career, most of
it
>   > negative. He relates an example:
>   > Cost of making the print 200.00 so at this cost he needs the gallery
to
>   price
>   > the work at 1000.00 so his split will be 500.00 So he has his 200.00
cost
>   > from that 500 and is expected to supply a replacement print for the
one
>   sold.
>   > He may also be asked to help out paying for promotional material and
wine
>   > cheese and shrimp dip for the opening. Doesn't leave much left does it
>   from a
>   > 1000.00 sale.  The article is several pages and touches on non paying
and
>   > extremely slow paying dealers (many of them behave this way)! Find a
>   dealer
>   > you trust or, sell direct is his message. He did live in his darkroom
for
>   14
>   > years and slept on the floor, so the article states!  Slow and non
>   payment,
>   > even refusing to return inventory is not uncommon. I found the article
>   very
>   > interesting and I will be more hesitant to solicit out of state
galleries
>   > that I don't know much about.
>   > Steve Meyers
>   > http://www.xray-art.com
>   >
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