Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
> Some of Robert Adams' prints with similar kinds of open white space > at the borders were hanging at the Fraenkel Gallery a few months ago. > They were hot-mounted, then a thin black ink line drawn around the > print, and a white gallery matte cut that left about 1/3 inch space > around the thin ink line. I thought it looked quite classy. Hey - that's what I was doing 25 years ago :) - but not hot mounted. I later switched to the black line being flush to the mat - I could never cut mats, had them cut so when there was a tiny error of size on the inside I could compensate by making the dark line bigger and hiding it under the mat - marks photos in this series are stunning, I think - no matter how they are presented they will survive nicely. Sometimes jsut a matter of taste of course ann > > > One could do the same with a digital print by putting a near-black > hairline around the image proper, separated by a thin white line to > allow separation from the dark areas. It's kind of how the "two pixel- > white, two pixel black" border was conceived for my web pages, eg: > http://www.gdgphoto.com/ramsey/source/6.html > > I've printed this one both with and without the hairline surround, > using about a 10% gray hairline color. In this one, the sky values in > a print are very light, but not quite to the the paper's base color; > the hairline surround works well. They both look good, I ultimately > preferred the one without the surround. If the sky tones were > lighter, I'd have kept the surround. > > Godfrey > > On Oct 30, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Mark Erickson wrote: > > > All, > > > > I'm looking for some advice. I printed a couple of shots from my > > Bodie > > gallery and really like them. Many of them have very light (almost > > white) > > areas at their edges. I usually mat prints with archival white > > mats, but > > I'm not sure that's going to work with these prints. > > > > I think straight black would dominate the prints, however, so I'm > > not sure > > what to do. > > > > Advice? Anyone with gallery experience? Or anyone with an opinion? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mark > > > > p.s. the pics are at http://www.westerickson.net/bodiefall2006/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
