Digital BW, The Print

At 1:06 AM -0700 9/21/02, Martin Wesley wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Yes coating or varnishing the prints cuts fading and warming by at least
>half. A lot of work was done on this by Robert Morrison. I did a bit myself
>and you can find the info in the Files section. Don't use the polyurethane.
>A year later it is very yellow. The Golden materials are the best.
>
>I sent around a traveling collection of coated prints and no one was
>inspired by the look to take up varnishing. The coated surface is similar to
>a varnish oil painting. The DMax is great though. Application is the biggest
>problem.
>
>Varnishing photographs was fairly common before the birth of the glossy
>silver gelatin print. Strand varnished most of his prints.
>
>Martin Wesley
>
>http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
>


Martin,

I have been coating prints with acrylic emulsion..water base.  I 
spray it on with a high quality automotive spray gun.  Seems to work 
fine.  I don't like glass or plastic covering my images. I mount them 
on canvas, metal or whatever.

What is the Golden material?  Is that an acrylic material made by the 
same people who do the Golden line of acrylic artists paints?

Bill Agee
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bill agee studio
capistrano beach, ca / laguna beach, ca

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