[alt-photo] Re: bottom-weighting mats

[Denny]

For mounting, I use short strips of archival paper (about 1/2" x 2") and
fold over both ends to form a triangle (hard to explain, easy to do).  I
slip a triangle under each corner of the photo and tape the top of the
triangle down with Filmoplast.  No tape touches the photo.  For overmats, I
use linen tape to hinge the two mats together at the top.

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Mounting the photo, but interested in new ideas for both. 

Mark Nelson
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On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:13 AM, "Denny" <dspector at charter.net> wrote:

> Mark, what are you using the double-sided tape for?  If it's for 
> mounting the photo or for attaching the overmat, there may be better
ways...
> 
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> Speaking of matting, what are folks using for tape?  Is there a good 
> archival, low tack, double sided tape that you do not have to moisten 
> with water?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark Nelson
> www.PrecisionDigitalNegatives.com
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> On Dec 1, 2011, at 7:22 AM, Christina Anderson <zphoto at montana.net> wrote:
> 
>> Well, it seems from all the wonderful answers to this question that 
>> the
> majority of you still bottom weight the mat slightly at the very 
> least. I was told that yes, maybe traditional or vintage works are 
> bottom weighted, but not contemporary, and certainly that fits our 
> kind of photography. That fits two of the classes I 
> teach--Experimental (all B&W) and Alt, but I am worried about leading 
> students astray in the three digital classes I also teach. But it 
> seems that the answer is the practice is still going on, nevertheless.
>> 
>> Thanks for the wonderful mathematical reasons why this is so, too. 
>> 
>> I once knew a man years ago who wrote his thesis in college on the
> mathematically correct viewing distance for looking at an artwork...so 
> there has to be a science to it.
>> Chris
>> 
>> Christina Z. Anderson
>> christinaZanderson.com
>> 
>> On Dec 1, 2011, at 2:17 AM, Laura V wrote:
>> 
>>> Tom, the reason prints are matted is for protection: 1. to protect 
>>> the
> print from condensation by moving it away from the glass and 2. encase 
> the print in an acid free environment (you should also use acid free 
> matting behind the print.
>>> 
>>> I used to work at a framing shop and the rule of thumb we used was 
>>> 1/4 to
> 1/2 inch more weight at the bottom for a 3-4 inch wide mat (depending 
> on the size of the print, the width of the mat and whether it was 
> vertical or landscape). This is so the the mat would LOOK EQUAL, not 
> to make it look bigger at the bottom. Of course we sometimes put a 
> square print in a heavily bottom weighted mat for effect, but this is
purely an aesthetic decision.
>>> 
>>> Laura
>>> 
>>> On 11/30/11 17:49 PM, Tomas Sobota wrote:
>>>> I used to bottom-weight vertical images and center horizontal 
>>>> images. For no reason except because I saw photographs displayed 
>>>> that way. However then I noticed that paintings 1. are not matted 
>>>> and 2. usually reach to the inner border of the frame. So, I 
>>>> wondered why photographs have to be matted at all. I can understand 
>>>> it in the case of the small print formats that were in vogue some 
>>>> decades ago, because matting gave them more physical presence. But 
>>>> today everybody tends to print large, so why mat at all? I 
>>>> sometimes mat and sometimes use other forms of presentation. When I 
>>>> mat I leave
> equal width borders all around.
>>> 
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