Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Two thoughts. First, mount the prints on standard board or gator board but then mount on a larger board so the edges that will get bent and beat will not be on the image. Second, consider laminating the prints with a matt laminate. This will protect from fingerprints and other random accidents that occur to public art that will be touched. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:22 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug < leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > So ? > > Yesterday I asked a question about mounting prints to gaterboard and about > 40 people emailed me privately saying ?gaterboard is a crappy way to hang > your show? > > So ? this may require a bit more explanation ? my solution doesn?t have to > be gaterboard but it does have some requirements. > > Here?s the whole scoop: > > A year ago, I got this idea to do portraits of librarians. I did, and it > was published as a photo essay in Slate magazine. (In fact, it was the most > popular photo essay that Slate has ever published): > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photographs_librarians_at_the_american_library_association.html > < > http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photographs_librarians_at_the_american_library_association.html > > > > It has multiple millions of views, tens of thousands of shares on Twitter > and Facebook ? it went everywhere, but only to people who have Internet > access, some of the people who this photo essay was essentially FOR > wouldn?t get to see it ? one of the things that librarians pointed out > again and again is that a lot of their constituants don?t have access to > the internet, which is one thing that makes libraries so necessary ?. so > based on this, and the huge amount on controversy it generated (and like > SERIOUS FIGHTING IN HERE): > > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/781095.html < > http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/781095.html> > > I began a crowdfunded campaign to photograph MORE librarians -- ultimately > I photographed and interviewed about 350 total. > > One of the things that I promised was that after doing this there would be > a free gallery show that would tour the country and that libraries could > hang for no cost apart from being responsible for repacking it and mailing > it to the next library after it had been up for a month. I?d learned that > many libraries are operating on less than a shoe-string budget and that > there were hundreds, if not thousands of libraries that wanted to hang the > show. So ? these set of prints would basically be on tour until they were > all stolen, lost, or destroyed. > > For that reason, I want to keep the cost of mailing them as cheap as > possible and I want to keep the hanging options as simple as possible, in > this case, museum putty that just goes in the box. I had good luck with > this method in my show ?Leaving Dakota? ( > http://kylecassidy.com/projects/dakota/ < > http://kylecassidy.com/projects/dakota/>) which toured the world in a > shoe box. > > It seems that the easiest, and least expensive way of doing this is to > make multiple copies of the show, printed on gaterboard, that just get > mailed out; libraries hang them, pack them, and mail them to the next one > on the list. > > The criteria are: > > 1) The images look nice. > 2) They?re cheap for libraries to mail. > 3) They?re easy to hang. > 4) They?re easy to hang in non-traditional gallery spaces. > > They should also be not expensive to produce since I want to make about > ten copies of the show (each featuring about 20 prints) so they can tour > simultaneously. > > > So ? that?s the long story. > > If you have ideas about how to do it (canvass mounting? indestructible > light frames?) ?. > > Thanks for your advice and expertise, > > Kyle > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com