Re: Presentation Question

From: PhotoGecko Austin ^lt;gecko@photogecko.com>
Date: 09/11/04-01:51:47 AM Z
Message-id: <6EC18F08-03C7-11D9-B7BE-000393CAE390@photogecko.com>

. . . . darn. . . .

Now I've gotta take my prints (both of them) out of those thick black
frames. . .

Shucks.

So, what *should* I do with them?

On Sep 10, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:

>
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Schuyler Grace wrote:
>
>> .... And if the final product isn't presented
>> properly, all the effort expended on the process can be wasted ...
>
> My alarm bells ring for this one... if we are supposed to be
> freethinking creative artists, we ought to be able to present work
> according to our own freethinking creative sensibility, not by what is
> all too often a lifeless convention.
>
> I recall some time around 1980, the first show of work I'd ever seen
> by Bea Nettles. I *loved* her work in books, but when I walked into
> the gallery all I could see was a row of same size black wood frames
> the length of 3 walls. The work, neatly matted inside, was invisible.
>
> So today you probably wouldn't put your work in thick black frames...
> But that was the "proper" thing then. Beware...
>
> Judy
>
Received on Sat Sep 11 01:52:03 2004

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