Best Practices for Photographic Editions


By Patti Hallock

As a photographic artist, how do you handle print editions? There are a few options available for creating editions of your work and they can serve different goals. There are limited editions, open editions, and artist proofs. The production of multiples has its roots in the history of printmaking and the ability to reproduce several copies of the same image from a single plate. The edition developed when a printmaker artist designated the number of prints produced from a plate before it degraded and was destroyed.

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Patti Hallock received her BFA in photography from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2004 and her MFA in photography 2007 from Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City. She was invited to exhibit work from her project, “The West Is Here” in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, CO, in 2013. A book about the work was published in conjunction with the exhibition. Her work is in public and private collections. She is the founder of an application serving the business needs of fine art photographers called PhotoWorkflo.

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