photo.lindes.net -- the photography of David Lindes

Initialed Series

The "initialed" series of prints by photographer David Lindes are a limited (but not numbered; more below) edition set of prints which can be identified by the following features:

Regarding "limited" edition in this series:

It is common in the art world to have a numbered limited-edition series, where a buyer will know that a particular item is one of a fixed number of items within the series. When I sell completely hand-made works of art, the likelyhood is high that I will adopt this methodology as well. The actual photographic prints in my "initialed" series, however, are commercially printed, and could be reproduced ad infinitum without difficulty. However, they are placed into mats by hand, and labeled by hand, and there is a significant degree of care that goes into verifying that the prints made are as expected, that the mats are up to the high standards of the artist, and that the further preparation of the matting is done with care. The ability of the artist to do this is most certainly not unlimited, and thus, while there is no specific number of prints pre-decided, it is safe to assume that the number of prints of a particular image within this series will not be very much finite. I thus feel comfortable calling it a limited edition, without the numbering. If you'd like a numbered edition, you're welcome to contact me about it -- I do expect to do numbered editions of some works. In the mean time, please know that great care has gone into the preparation of any print in this series, and that there will not be an unlimited number of them to be found.