From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 02/15/02-03:18:44 PM Z
Does the mylar have less glare than glass?
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robert W. Schramm" <schrammrus@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:43:05 -0500
>
>I think all alt process prints look better without glass but, of course,
>then they have no protection. I put some platinum prints on display last
>year without glass but the surface was protected with very thin sheet of
>mylar (polyester D) under the mat. I was pleased with the result.
>
>Isn't there an old story about a student who asked his instructor how to
>display platinum prints so that they looked their best and the instructor
>said , "under two inches of water."
>
>I confess that I have put multiple coats of acrylic spray on a platinum
>print to make it look better. Of course I know that is heresy and I run the
>risk of being drummed out of platinum printers corps for confessing that.
>;-)
>
>In Paris I saw some Demachy gum prints without glass. They were, to take
>your breath away. What a shame it would have been to cover them with glass.
>
>Glass is not a solid and has some unusual properties. Old glass on
>daguerreotypes tends to get darker with time and has to be replaced. Perhaps
>this is a chemical reaction between the silver, mercury and glass.
>
>Bob Schramm
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