Selling prints - Limited Editions or not etc?

JBrunner said:

Chopping up or burning negatives to prove or enforce the artificial rarity of a limited edition is to my thinking a bit pretentious, or at the very least affected, it won't reap the kind of whirlwind that would befall one who played overt games such as printing "new" editions from an identical negative. The market would take care of game in about two seconds.

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RalphLambrecht said:

Totally agree, but the point was:

If one want's to use 'limited' editions to increase subjective print value, then go the whole way, and destroy the negative, otherwise, there is too much doubt in the truthfulness of the whole approach. For this reason, and sparked by this conversation and the article by Brooks Jensen of Lenswork, I'm giving up on limited editions. I don't believe it's honest enough without destroying the negative, and I'm not prepared to do that. There is too much blood, sweat and tears in them. I', picking up on Brooks proposal and go with numbered editions instead. 1/250 is pretentious (and only wishful thinking) to me!

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