[pure-silver] Re: Mounting prints

Small prints mounted as you describe work just fine. But large prints, even RC and polyester, will not ever lay perfectly flat, and therefore, to me, don't look good. And, to me, large prints need to be either heat mounted or cold mounted. If you are going to go to the trouble of heat or cold mount your large prints, you might as well do all of your prints that way. Which is what I do. And I figure, once I've mounted a print, I can't think of why I would want to un-mount it. I always make extra prints and I can always make more prints.
Over the years I've discovered that everyone has a different opinion on this. This is mine. 

:-)

Jim


At 12:16 PM 10/21/2007 -0700, Jeffrey Thorns wrote:
I saw the show at the Camerawork Gallery (in Portland, OR) yesterday, of The Contact Printers Guild. (Sandy King, among others) Very nice work - Platinum/Palladium, Carbon Transfer, 'traditional'.
I noticed that at least one photog used photo corners to attach the prints to the 'back board', then used (I assume) archival linen tape to hinge the overmat to the back board (at the top). The prints were mostly 8x10 and, I assume, watercolor paper. (and thus, fairly stiff)
Is this common practice among those on the list? Do you use this method when the print is 11x14 or larger? I have always worried that the print would somehow slip out of the corner. (even with an overmat)
I don't own a dry-mount press, so I have used mostly linen tape. I kind of like the idea of a mounting method that is 'reversable'. 

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