From the course: Exploring Photography: Planning and Staging an Exhibition
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Hanging the exhibition
From the course: Exploring Photography: Planning and Staging an Exhibition
Hanging the exhibition
So now that we've finished sequencing the show it's time to go ahead and hang the work. I start with a simple formula to determine the height that we want the work to hang. Typically, eye level for an American is around 62 inches, say 5'2". What I'll do, then, is take the height of the frame, in this case, 16 inches, and divide that by 2, giving me 8 inches, and then add that do the 62 inches for a height of 70 inches. This will basically center the image in the viewer's field of vision. Once we've established that kind of concept to start with, we then adapt that to this particular wall. In this case we've got an interesting obstacle. Here is the alarm keypad, and I'm just going to treat that as a wall. I'm going to look at that as a stopping place. I think it will help work with the entryway position and so on as far as positioning the work. So I'm going to measure from the left wall over to the wall I've created here with the alarm pad, and I get a measurement of 64 inches. I'm…