<x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset="iso-8859-1"><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2> </DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>John,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>At the risk of doing what I have condemned others of doing, I was referring mainly to the common man-on-the street buyer of imagery and not necessarily to the speculative buyers of investment art, wealthy collectors of innovative or out of the ordinary works of art that are on the cutting edge whether they are temporary installations and works or permanent archival, or even regular art buyers who are art collectors looking for different artworks for their collections rather than art to put on the wall which matches their interior design and decor. I am also taking about print buyers who are buying portraiture and special events imagery in contrast to fine arts or scenic imagery.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>>other hand, I have a feeling that longevity may not -- surprisingly -- be as much of interest to collectors than seems rational. People are spending tens of thousand dollars >on C-prints, which are not I think all that archival. Hey, people are paying a lot more than that for Joseph Bueys lard pieces, a medium that has presumably never seen >the inside of Wilhelm's lab.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>I sometimes think that it is not the serious collectors and high spending buyers who keep up with the art scene and know about what is archival and what is not who get that concerned about art which is only temporary art. It appears to me that it is the occasional art fair or street bazaar buyer, the person buying art work for display on their walls for purposes of room decor and not because of the artwork itself who do not keep up with the current art scene, what is archival and what is not, or the current status of technology. Moreover, they probably could care less. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>I bring this up only because the original topic appeared to me to be much broader than just commercial or fine arts sales or licensing of stock imagery and was not merely restricted to the seller. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>John Matturri<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 02, 2000 6:10 PM<BR><B>To:</B> epson-inkjet@leben.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Our responsibilty with Inkjet Printing<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>This is certainly true and is an issue I'm grappling with a new gallery -- one that I raised, not them. I'm not sure what to say and what guarantee to give. I'll put a lifelong alumni web-forwarding address on the back (though who knows what lifelong means there) but what that will mean is chancy. <P>On the other hand, I have a feeling that longevity may not -- surprisingly -- be as much of interest to collectors than seems rational. People are spending tens of thousand dollars on C-prints, which are not I think all that archival. Hey, people are paying a lot more than that for Joseph Bueys lard pieces, a medium that has presumably never seen the inside of Wilhelm's lab. But the collectors' psychology is not something I understand very well. <P>John M. <P>Laurie wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><PRE>namely the buyers side of the equation. They typically are buying prints not files; they want and expect some degree of longevity, and they do not want to have to keep going back to the seller to buy or get them to print up new replacement prints from the original or duplicate files. From their point of view the life span of the digital file is not relevant or significant.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>- Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> </x-html>