Digital BW, The Print

My working outlook, too.

I like to point out to people that the coffee table books seem to have reproductions they don't complain about. It's just a different process.

gar

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On 9/18/2008 at 9:22 AM ben schneider wrote:

>Portraits, and Commercial prints are mostly framed without a matte.  Dry
>mounting is necessary to keep the print flat, especially when no glass is
>put into the frame.  I normally lacquer all of the prints that do not have
>glass over them.
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>I chose to float, or hinge mount prints that are matted, because it is
>reversible.  One can change the matte and backing if necessary.  When I
>print the print, it is on a slightly larger sheet.  I sign that sheet, as
>well as the matte.  The extra paper that extends past the image helps to
>keep the print flat under the matte.
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>I also think of Ink Jet Prints as being different then Photographs.  I
>have argued this ethical, and aesthetic point many times.  I consider
>Silver/Gelatin prints a whole other class of art, digital ink jet printing
>another.  When I sell digitally produced images, I do not call them
>photographs.  I sell them as Giclee Prints.  Adding this title to them,
>makes people think they are more exclusive.  
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>Personally I consider injet printing more akin to Lithography as a print
>class.  Images made from cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink dots on
>paper.  It is just the method of applying the ink that is different.
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>Ben
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