Just to make sure we all do the right things! Check the following and send me a PM with the details of your decisions so can handle the print preparation according to your wishes.
You will be invoiced for that actual cost of mounting prints. no markups are made, of course. Respond by PM so I have all the responses in one place.
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EXPECTED DATE OF DELIVERY……………………No later than Friday March 27th
Asher Kelman
OPF/Gallery One
522 N. Roxbury Drive
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
For overseas photographers, include this wording on the forms: “For exhibition Only. To be returned after exhibition.”
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we need:
• Dimensions: Please list height first, width second for each print
• Title, date, edition number, medium (i.e. silver gelatin print, c-print, or archival pigment print)
SIGNATURE: see below
• Signature on each work must be very unobtrusive. Avoid ceremonial, complex art designs in signature, and please use light pencil or light conté crayon on glossy inkjet paper, or you may sign on back, (“on verso”). No ink should be used anywhere on the artwork and no signature should be inside the picture space. These recommendations are in line with what a curator or serious collector would expect.
• If you want your signature to show, then here are the choices:
If you use a matte paper on an A2 or smaller print, then we will make the overmat window larger so that your signature will be revealed below the print on the undermount or, for matte paper, on the border of the print itself
If you are printing on gloss/semi glossy paper, you might sign in conté crayon, which looks similar to pencil. You may want to test on a remnant of your printing paper first!
If you have a print substantially larger than A2, (~16”x20”) paper size and you have allowed a white border of photographic paper/inkjet paper around the print, a signature can show in that white border, or you may sign on the back of the print before mounting.
If you trim the print to the actual picture edge, and mount it on archival board and then sign on the under-board beneath the picture, then we will overmat it to reveal the signature.
• If you mount and overmat your own pictures, you will save some money. However, we still need to know exact dimensions of the final mounted picture including the undermount and overmount. Borders should be as follows:
• Mat border size on prints: 3”, 3.5”, 4”, 4.5” (7.5cm, 10cm, 12.5cm)
• If we do the mounting, let us know if you want your print either centered in window or above center (bottom-weighted)
For large prints to frame without overmats, please allow from 2 to 5 inches of white border, depending on your artistic taste.
SEND PM ON THIS: We need to know exactly sizes to be framed including any matte. In a white frame, you only need a white border on the print paper and the print to be mounted on archival card. I can do framing here at low cost if you are fast.If folk delay, it will become very hard for me. If each of us works fast, I can do a superb job.Very large prints will be one print high. A frame size of 24" high by 28" wide can be stacked two, ones above the other on a 10 ft high wall. However, 28" high frames can not so easily be shown this way.
Smaller prints might work two high. Generally, smaller prints can have large matts around them or else be printed on a larger sheet of archival paper.
I need to map out the entire booth, lighting, store room chaos, table, postcards etc. The first item which MUST be done now is to give me the final measurements the picture (+ mount if you need one) so I will know what size the frame is and allocate wall space.
Print with white border and after you mounting on archival board, we frame here. I need the size of the paper.
or Print and add (or plan for me to add matte and backing).
Anyway, give final matted and mounted size so as to allow me order the mattes and get frames wholesale and give you exact pricing costs which hwill be very inexpensive.
Do not frame in glass! If the picture has glass, change it for plexiglass or send it unframed. Glass never arrives intact!
Let me know when the prints will arrive. give time in case one or more print is somehow in need of being reprinted. Decide on prices.
Send insured to my address which I have already sent you by PM. If you lost it, ask again in a PM
POSTCARDS:
Professionally brilliantly printed in full color on Heidelberg offset press. Price is about $180 for 500. We have chosen one of the finest printers in the States, as we are interested in the very highest quality for this endeavor. The 500 4”x5” cards are to be given away at booth, allowing about 150 or so per day to those interested in your work. I’ll reserve a minimum of 20-30 to send to you after the show.
I also want a card printed with the following picture at $180 per set of 500 cards
• 1. Title………………………………………………$180
• 2. Title ……………………………………………. $180
• 3.Title……………………………………………… $180
• TOTAL…………………………………………………………….x $180= ……$…………….