From the course: Matting, Framing, and Hanging Your Photographs
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Conversing with a framer
From the course: Matting, Framing, and Hanging Your Photographs
Conversing with a framer
Konrad Eek: I'm here with my good friend and colleague Ben Long, and we're here to discuss the aesthetics of framing photographic prints. Ben, do you want to tell me a little bit about these prints? Ben Long: Well, I have got two prints that I brought with me from the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. These are student works done by high school students that we were working with this summer. I worked these prints up as part of my Inkjet Printing course, so we got a black and white and a color--these as I said are both inkjet prints on pretty inexpensive mat paper. What's nice about the black and white that we were able generate because of the printer we were using we have got a good truly neutral black and white, we have got a nice color image. Both are--because of the nature of the inks used in that printer extremely archival--these prints are rated at 200 years easily on this particular paper. So, I want to talk about some ideas about framing them. Konrad: Okay, one of the things you…
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