Digital BW, The Print

Very large prints are often exhibited mounted to aluminum sheet, without
other framing- the print is seen to "float" off the wall.

Regards,


Bill Morse
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on 12/14/03 7:06 PM, Steve Kale wrote:

> Alan,
>> 
>> I just have to ask - have you ever seen a photograph in a gallery or
>> museum framed and matted but not glazed?
> 
> This is irrelevant. It is a look that I like (and do others who have seen
> them) and hope to be able to achieve ­ I am not bound by precedent. The
> question is whether it can be done without (severely) reducing the life
> expectancy of the print or incurring decay of the frame materials.  I am
> surprised to learn that matting boards are not as archival as I would expect
> (and worse yet potentially a delicacy for insects).  However, to answer your
> question, I have certainly seen many exhibitions where the images were not
> behind glass (I would say this is most common) and also framed without glass
> ­ I don¹t recall whether they were matted or not.