The mounting style that Winsor described was once very popular with large
format black and white fine art photographers. It is still used but is less
popular because many art conservationists believe its not as archival as was
once thought. What he's talking about is making a fiber based BW print,
trimming off the edges with a rotatrim type cutter, then dry mounting it on
white museum board. You cut the mat larger than the photo so that the
backing board forms a white border around the mounted print, and you sign
and title the backing board right below the print. Its now believed that dry
mounting is not totally archival, partly because you can't easily remove the
print from its mount, and partly because some conservators feel that
dry-mount tissue is not archival.
The move to digital printing (inkjet) on cotton papers has made this older
mount style even more obsolete because most inkjet prints cannot be
drymounted...the heat is bad for them and some papers that have texture on
both sides will not mount well by drymount.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com
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On 5/24/07 12:33 PM, "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Interesting. The ones in Santa Fe didn't look that way, but frankly, I
> didn't look too closely at his, as I'm not a big fan.
>
> Bill Pearce
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:07 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Signing photos
>
>
>>
>> Ansel Adams printed without borders but the print was permanently
>> mounted to a backing which got the pencil signature in the lower
>> right hand corner.
>>
>>
>>
>> Winsor
>> Long Beach, California, USA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 24, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
>>
>>> There are rules for signing works of art on paper, which includes
>>> Photography. The signiture should be done in Pencil only outside
>>> the image
>>> area (in the white border..print on big enough paper to allow this)
>>> right
>>> under the lower right corner of the picture. If you used a type of
>>> paper
>>> that will not work with pencil (eg, Glossy or pearl surfaces) then a
>>> permananent marker like sharpie is ok. Pencil is preferred because
>>> pencil
>>> will never, ever fade. All inks eventually will, but pencil will
>>> outlive any
>>> photographic print or watercolor painting and will outlast many
>>> types of
>>> drawings too.
>>>
>>> The mat is cut a little larger than the image area so that the
>>> edges of the
>>> image show and the signiture shows. I usually leave an extra 1/4
>>> inch around
>>> the top and sides, and 3/4 to one inch on the bottom to show the
>>> signiture.
>>> A title can be written under the picture on the border under the right
>>> corner if you wish...the mat cut as I describe will allow the title
>>> to show
>>> as well.
>>
>>
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