[pure-silver] Re: matting square prints
- From: Georges Giralt <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:12:09 +0100
Hi Shannon !
I do not use the optical center.
I just move the image a few millimeters up from the center.
It shows and breaks the symetrical look the print had. A few millimeters
are enough. And it looksbetter.
When printing (or mounting) using the optical center, the print is too
high in the surroundings. Almost for my taste.
Have a nice day !
Shannon Stoney a écrit :
> This is interesting. I am afraid I could not quite follow your
> directions for optical center finding, but usually I can sort of
> eyeball it.
>
> Somebody told me once that the reason prints are usually mounted with
> more space at the bottom, is that prints were formerly often hung
> salon-style. A lot of prints, therefore, were hung up pretty high,
> so that the viewer had to look up to see them. If you've ever been
> to the Barnes collection in Philadelphia, you know what this means:
> there are paintings from floor to ceiling it seems, on all the walls.
> Horrible, really. But back in the days when prints were really
> prints--that is, etchings, lithographs, etc from a printing
> press--apparently they were often hung this way, and our photographic
> tradition of calling our work prints, and mounting them with extra
> space at the bottom, may derive from this. The extra space was needed
> at the bottom to make the prints look centered, when they were five
> feet above your head. Now, however, it's a convention, and that's
> why it looks "funny" if you don't have extra space at the bottom.
>
> This is just something I heard and I don't know if it's true.
>
> --shannon
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