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Anonymous
Exclusivity is bull. >>156395 >ANYONE can learn how to lay out a book in InDesign. >Handmade books require artistic ability.
ANYONE can learn to properly focus and expose a photograph. Does this make photography a lesser medium than painting?
Exclusivity is not something to be valued.
>Limited = precious >Unlimited/easily replicated = throwaway.
Only if you derive something's value from things external to itself. I treat all my books, even the mass-market paperbacks, with great care and respect, out of respect for the literature within them. I own a few leather and cloth-bound books, but they receive the same treatment as a $5 paperback that I could replace with a ten minute trip to the bookstore.
And I personally think it would be wonderful if I could walk up the street to the drugstore and buy an M8 or MP for $5. Or even more so, if we could exactly duplicate a old master painting, down to every last subatomic particle, so Rembrandt's "Philosopher in Meditation" or Modigliani's portrait of Chaim Soutine could hang on the walls of every museum in the world, or even every home, so everyone could enjoy and be edified by them. Unfortunately, that's impossible. But it would be wonderful, because all those things have independent, great value in and of themselves. I don't see any reason to look at a print like a rare commodity.
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