Edition Prints and Folios
I follow the philosophy of Editions for my prints and folios, similar to the publication of fine book. This is contrast
to the philosophy of printing either Limited Edition or Open Edition prints and folios. My reason is that over
time, technologies and my taste change, and how I print an image could correspondingly change. I want to
have that creative option.
I had not anticipated the digital revolution in 1975, or the fine printing capable with today's ink jet printers when I
started working with Photoshop in 1991.
Using Editions or Editioning, I have the latitude to create different versions of an image that are tracked with the
Certificate of Authenticity for each image or folio. For a major change in the image or printing technology, that
would mean that the subsequent prints would be the next Edition. Each time that I print that image, that would
constitute the printing of the Edition by date and quantity printed.
Likewise, when I publish a Folio, a collection of loose and unbound images that I have grouped together, there
would the folio's Edition and printing. For a folio, there would also be the Edition and printing of the images that
are within the folio.
As an example, my image Vancouver River Canyon was originally created on Tri-X film and I printed it in my wet
darkroom on Oriental Paper. The resulting silver-bromide print was the first Edition of that image.
Subsequently I scanned that 120mm film negative in my Nikon film scanner to create a digital file for fine tuning
in Adobe Photoshop. When I print this image with the Epson K3 pigment inks on Hahnemuhle matte rag
medium, that would now be the Second Edition of this image. I have made one print of this Second Edition and
when I print it with my folio, Foundations, it will be the Second printing of the Second Edition.