How to publish a book about the artist. What is the cost and where to start?

[L-ana64110]

http://www.printbroker.com/2/696/

It's nice to do in St. Petersburg.
There is a calculator on the site.

[NATA NOVA]

Сообщение от Pavel; 2176981"

A lot of times want to publish something about yourself . Onetlenitsya , but every time the thought occurs , what to do with circulation. No system allows this to sell albums. Previously, a system of kiosks and shops engaged in promotion and they have implemented all the products , such as the publishing house " Soviet Artist ". Now it is very expensive and therefore not available. You have described how, but just do not take to the store . Makes no sense .
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Some galleries issue galleries (modest for a clip , but quite presentable ) for exhibitions of artists, and then ( years) selling in the gallery shop and a gallery- sayt.Pribyli ( intuitive ), I do not see any albums for £ 2,5 - £ 3 ( maybe even this cost) ...

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Сообщение от "Pavel; 2176981 '

No system allows this to sell albums.

You can also sell at their shows (I think Iksigon offered once ..)

Very interesting idea ... (do not an album to a specific exhibition, and as correctly noted by the COP, "as a great business card", the presentation of the artist)

[so-coll]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

Author album of the artist does not calculate the "business profits" from sales of this album, there are other interests.
And the albums often heard - " give to friends 10-50 books ", up to half of the draw, if not the entire edition diverges precisely as "gifts", and in fact the author is promoting svvoego

The album - it is such a large and respectable business card, as it were.

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This is just my case - only the cost, no commercial interest, solely for the forgotten memory of the artist, who has begun to strike out in life and after death - as a matter of course - almost no mention, sometimes - in the number of "etc". I want to somehow glue and smooth it is almost a forgotten man's life.
This is not a promotion - to sell almost nothing, so most probably karma.
Collect information bit by bit, the archives, we want to maximize the light in the book of the artist. They collected all the directories (some - in copies) in order to possibly identify the remaining work. The difficulty is that these directories - from 1915 - do not have pictures, but only - at best - nothing saying the name - "Portrait", "Drawing in pencil," "Etude. Watercolor."
We think print 1,000 copies., My friends - you know, to museums to distribute, may be interested in art .... maybe even pull out of oblivion ...
As for the glued and stitched - from years of experience in publishing catalogs on core business - the publishers must have to negotiate it, the difference in price is small, but if you forget - the default to be "skleyut." After a few hits of this page booklets from it sypyatsya. A hundred times already advanced on this rake.

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Сообщение от so-coll

A few views of this page booklets from it sypyatsya.

It depends on where and how it is done ...
Holding a very lovely quality directory

Lucy Raven.
(In paperback) ..
Very high quality and decently done ..

[so-coll]

Of course, it's important!
Even as important - a conscientious publisher

[Allena]

Сообщение от so-coll; 2177351"

We think print 1,000 copies . , My friends - you know , to museums to send

so-coll, a noble goal , but before you rely on a number of copies, just try to figure out how many friends - friends and many museums of the future will be expected to catalog. Make copies with a margin of, say, a hundred pieces, but it will be psychologically worse, if the extra copies will be based on the mountain before the eyes, because they have nowhere to put it.
Of course, the smaller the number of copies, the higher the cost, but here especially for the cheap chasing , in my opinion , not worth it - better for your case the optimal number of copies, and not a penny dimes ...

[so-coll]

Allena,

Thanks, somehow I had not thought about this " sorrowful hill "!
On the economy of the question , I want to do with dignity , in memory of the departed artist.
Indeed, the number must be well thought out.

I have a question - perhaps knowing the forum users advise - as is done with the prints ?
Is it possible to scan them in principle, if yes - then where will be better picture quality - on the scan or the image ? Or is there any other ways?

[fabosch]

Сообщение от so-coll

I have a question - maybe advise forum users know - how to deal with prints ?
Can I scan them in principle, if so - which is better image quality - on the scan or the photo? Or is there any other way ?

Of course, the scan if they fit into the size of the scanner. It is in any case better quality than shooting. If not walk - to scan in parts and "glue" in Photoshop. It must be borne in mind that the incisal and other prints have a structure which, when applied to a raster grid it will give the refractive patterns. Therefore, the images of these prints after scanning to " knock down the sharpness " or negotiate this with the printing press - they can get around this by applying irregular stochastic raster