Digital BW, The Print

I've sometimes wondered at peoples desire to frame without glass.  We had an
opening here this weekend of photography at the local community college.
Half of the work was digital output, most of it behind glass.

Now I'm always astonished that people feel they can point to the point of
poking works of art - and they DO.

There was one work, which was a composite of images blended together for a
seamless effect, except the irregular edges were left in place.  This is a
'straight' photograph, the blend is only because we don't all walk around
with 6x17pano cameras.  It had many peoples attention because of their
fascination with seeing the perfection of the blend (which the artist did
'manually' in photoshop, not a stitch program).

If it had not been behind glass it would effectively been damaged on opening
night - and not by children.  Therefore if a work is publicly accessible &
you want the feel of framing without glazing, I would recommend using
AR/Museum glass - Worth the expense.

Cleavis