Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Has to be Gatorboard because if it was foamcore they'd put push pins through it to attach it to the walls. Has to be more "thinglike". I think we respond negatively to the sound of the word "gatorboard". Sounds like the reinforcing material for those air boats in the swamps. Also Gatorade was pretty bad. I see they still make it! On 12/23/14 8:22 AM, "Kyle Cassidy" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > So ? Yesterday I asked a question about mounting prints to gaterboard and > about 40 people emailed me privately saying ?gaterboard is a crappy way to > hang your show? So ? this may require a bit more explanation ? my solution > doesn?t have to be gaterboard but it does have some requirements. Here?s the > whole scoop: A year ago, I got this idea to do portraits of librarians. I > did, and it was published as a photo essay in Slate magazine. (In fact, it > was > the most popular photo essay that Slate has ever > published): http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photogr > aphs_librarians_at_the_american_library_association.html > <http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photographs_librari > ans_at_the_american_library_association.html> It has multiple millions of > views, tens of thousands of shares on Twitter and Facebook ? it went > everywhere, but only to people who have Internet access, some of the people > who this photo essay was essentially FOR wouldn?t get to see it ? one of > the > things that librarians pointed out again and again is that a lot of their > constituants don?t have access to the internet, which is one thing that > makes > libraries so necessary ?. so based on this, and the huge amount on > controversy > it generated (and like SERIOUS FIGHTING IN > HERE): http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/781095.html > <http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/781095.html> I began a crowdfunded > campaign to photograph MORE librarians -- ultimately I photographed and > interviewed about 350 total. One of the things that I promised was that after > doing this there would be a free gallery show that would tour the country > and > that libraries could hang for no cost apart from being responsible for > repacking it and mailing it to the next library after it had been up for a > month. I?d learned that many libraries are operating on less than a > shoe-string budget and that there were hundreds, if not thousands of > libraries > that wanted to hang the show. So ? these set of prints would basically be > on > tour until they were all stolen, lost, or destroyed. For that reason, I want > to keep the cost of mailing them as cheap as possible and I want to keep > the > hanging options as simple as possible, in this case, museum putty that just > goes in the box. I had good luck with this method in my show ?Leaving > Dakota? > (http://kylecassidy.com/projects/dakota/ > <http://kylecassidy.com/projects/dakota/>) which toured the world in a shoe > box. It seems that the easiest, and least expensive way of doing this is to > make multiple copies of the show, printed on gaterboard, that just get > mailed > out; libraries hang them, pack them, and mail them to the next one on the > list. The criteria are: 1) The images look nice. 2) They?re cheap for > libraries to mail. 3) They?re easy to hang. 4) They?re easy to hang in > non-traditional gallery spaces. They should also be not expensive to produce > since I want to make about ten copies of the show (each featuring about 20 > prints) so they can tour simultaneously. So ? that?s the long story. If > you have ideas about how to do it (canvass mounting? indestructible light > frames?) ?. Thanks for your advice and > expertise, Kyle _______________________________________________ Leica > Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/