posted on May 2, 2006 11:44:36 AM new
Does anyone know how museum makes the print fitted into a frame without damaging it and then remove it for storage after the exhibition??
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on May 2, 2006 11:56:39 AM new
Never mind,I found the answer.
This is related to an older thread where I took a limited ed print to be framed-museum mounting etc.
I went to court today and thru mediation I got back the money I paid for the framing and half of the price I paid for the print.
posted on May 2, 2006 12:18:17 PM new
In a former life (having reinvented myself several times) I worked in several art museums and since have exhibited my own photographs and our photo collection in galleries.
If the print is unmounted and has a border the preferred method is to cut an acid free mat to show the image area and corner it in with archival polyester mounting corners. They are transparent and come in several sizes. Even if the border is not big enough to cover the entire corner they are not obtrusive. If the borders of the print are big enough a corner can be made by folding acid free paper into a triangle and sticking it down with archival adhesive. The print can then be slipped out of the corners and returned to storage.
Many prints are hinged into archival window mats for storage and are "hung" on the archival backboard. A small strip of archival paper or cloth tape is attached to the back of the print at the top edge and another strip is placed across it to tape it to the backboard. The bottom of the print is left loose so that expansion and contraction does not cause it to wrinkle.
Some of the antique photographs we display are on stiff cardboard mounts and it we want to show the entire card. Light Impressions makes a terrific transparent track with an adhesive back that can be cut to size and slipped over the top and bottom edges of the print and attached to the backboard.
We get the corners and tape for mounting from Light Impressions but there are several sources for archival mounting supplies.
Sorry if I told you more than you want to know. I had alredy answered when I way your "never mind".
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Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
[ edited by photosensitive on May 2, 2006 12:19 PM ]
posted on May 2, 2006 12:49:37 PM new
Thanks for the information,but does this tape on the top back part of the print and another tape across it,would it damage the back of the print??
say you want to remove these tapes and roll the print up and put it in storage,would there be any marks from either the tape or the hinges??
will the hinges or clips make a mark on the print??
During mediation,the owner of the art gallery brought along his framer and they both insisted they have done nothing wrong,they must glue lightly to each corner of the print to the mounting board or else it wont stay in place and it wont look smooth.
They call this their 'museum mounting' and is good enough for the museum-aka fine arts museum of Houston.
But this is not the only damage done ,the framer also marked and trimmed the print,so to fit the print to the board!!
The sad part is that I do not know enough to explain 'musuem mounting ' to the mediator making everyone wonder how does the museum do it without gluing the print??
And another sad part is that they feel as long as I get to keep the print(altho it is damaged),what is the big deal about its value now plummeted to zero???
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on May 2, 2006 02:14:20 PM new
Hwahwa, There will be a very small amount of tape on the print with a tab sticking up. This will be attached to the backboard with a strip across the tab that is sticking up (like a letter T). If it is taken off the mount a cut would be made across at the tape at the edge of the print. There is a tiny amount of tape left on the back of the print but if everything is archival it will not be a problem.
I only use the tape hinge with large prints (say 20"X24" ) because of the weight of the print and use the polyester corners for anything smaller.
It has been years since I worked in a museum (Dallas, Fort Worth, Chicago) but I can't believe that any museum would accept the kind of mounting your framer is talking about. Sounds like pure vandalism to me!
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[ edited by photosensitive on May 2, 2006 02:20 PM ]
This article talks about T hinges and V hinges and shows pictures.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
didn't you bookmark the OTHER 3 pages of this same thread - the original one? ALL of the information was covered there already. What is this? A pity party?
posted on May 2, 2006 03:28:32 PM new
I think we've all devoted enough time to this already.
In the other 3 pages you elected to go to a framer that you DIDN'T like in the first place and let them frame your print. That should of been a MAJOR heads up right there.
THEN you were told what to do when you go to small claims court which evidently you ignored all of THAT advice and went unrepresented and uniformed by your own sheer stupidity, since you were given valuable advice by everyone here on this board. I can't think of how else to put it.
wah wah wah. Take your own sig line and live by it - since it seems like you're doing that.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein