My experience is also with printmaking and photography. The editioning process in printmaking is generally perfectly sensible and straight forward. The darn plate wears out, or something like that.
To me, one of the wonderful side effects of photography is that it is a 'democratic medium' and theoretically one can make an almost unlimited number of prints from a negative. In photography, I have found, editioning does not mean that there will be only x number of prints. It means there will only be x number of prints in this particular size, or on this particular paper, or prints made during a full moon, etc. It is totally artificial, arbitrary and seems to be designed only to appease collectors and or galleries. As far as I know, there is not one standard, and the introduction of digital printing has only complicated matters. My take on it is to do it only as a business decision, and not an artistic one. chris --- http://ChristianHarkness.tripod.com Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com
