Digital BW, The Print

Not mention that if you matt with museum rag board, it is a delicacy for
bugs...hence a sealed frame.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyons Cox" <lyonscox@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Framing without glass


> 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
>
>
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