[alt-photo] Re: bottom-weighting mats

[Kurt Nagy]

I use these for mounting my photos to the foam core

http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/photo-corners-574939/




On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Mark Nelson <ender100 at aol.com> wrote:

> Mounting the photo, but interested in new ideas for both. 
> 
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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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>> Mark Nelson
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>> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: bottom-weighting mats
>> 
>> 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
>> PDNPRint Forum @ Yahoo Groups
>> www.MarkINelsonPhoto.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
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>>> 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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