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Shipping
Shipping costs depending on the destination. Ships in a tube. This item will arrive rolled in a dent-resistant tube. This method is especially safe for oversized works and provides lower shipping costs as well. Rolled works can be easily stretched (for canvas works, i.e. placed onto wooden stretcher bars) and/or framed by a local framer upon arrival. Upon immediate delivery, we highly recommend you send any works on paper directly to your framer for cautious, professional unrolling of the artwork.
What determines the price of a photograph?
The photography market is now extremely well established internationally. Many thousands of collectable photographs are sold worldwide each year by auction houses and galleries, and a pricing model has organi-
cally developed from this to which artists and specialists can refer. Prices are usually set by comparison with
other similar prints that have sold, as well as the prices asked by artists of similar stature.
This is true of all aspects of the market, from when an artist sets the price for a new edition to when a gallery
sets a price for a picture that they have just bought privately.
What is an edition?
Editions have been around much longer than the photographic art market, and originally were used for num-
bering the output of sculptures, prints, books and other reproducible art forms. Photographers adopted editio-
ning as a useful tool when the market for photographs began to grow in commercial art galleries. A photogra-
pher usually establishes an edition when they embark on offering an image for sale as a print. They choose a number and paper size, and make a commitment to produce no more than that number of prints in that size.
When all of the offered sizes have sold out then the image will cease to be available on the primary market.
Photographers will often choose a few different paper-sizes to offer the work in, each with its own separate
edition. Sometimes they print the whole edition in one go, but usually prints are made and numbered on de-
mand as they are sold. Some photographers also include a small number of 'artist's proofs' as a part of their editions, which are essentially an extension of the edition size. Once an edition has sold out the artist will not produce another print of that image in that edition.
Why are some prints by the same photographer more expensive than others?
Prints are valued on many different criteria, but the most significant factor is of course the significance of the image. Every photographer has images that are more desirable and collectable than others within their archi-
ve, and these tend to be the most highly valued. One way in which this is often decided is through the editio-
ning system.
Many photographers will raise the price of a print as an edition sells through – the more that sell the more desirable they are (by definition), and the more valuable they will become. For older prints the same applies, although the rarity of a print may have an increased effect on its price.
