[Leica] Any recommendations prints on gatorboard?

[Mark Rabiner]

Bob!  Printing and mounting and or framing is cost and labor intensive as
you well know. The way I feel about it at this point is that I might as well
be using the right materials in the right way because you never know!?!
Someone could say "hey you're a photographer will you hang your stuff on my
gallery wall?   Can I buy one of your prints to hang next to my Salgado
print?
And then when they find out your board has acid in it they cancel their
check.  You are not one of the boys! If checks still exist I've not seen my
checkbook in awhile.
It pays to extend some feelers and make your prints kosher according to
Hoyle. 
I have a long time relationship with Light Impressions they used to send me
their catalog which I'd put next to my Calumet catalog and Zone VI catalog.
Now they're on the internet.  http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/
They supply the materials and info to make my prints viable in the open
market of serious print collectors who pay hundreds to thousands for a print
instead of the standard internet forty bucks.
I'd get my rag board from them and my Acid-Free Linen Tape. Sometimes id get
their frame kits.
There are so many losers on the internet who pretend they're photographers
but they give themselves away using cheap tripods and cheap mount board!
To me you're the read deal.


On 12/30/14 12:27 AM, "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I'm going to start getting back into printing and mounting in January. I
> think I'm going to expand on an idea of Paul Roark's and just mount on
> archival matte or gator board with, perhaps a protective spray. Stick that on
> a wall. 
> 
> I like to photograph and print. I don't like to frame with plexiglass/glass
> fronts and make frames. Diy framing is a PITA. PAYING someone  to do large
> prints is outrageously expensive.
> 
> I just don't really care what the "art world" calls standard. The framers get
> the money if it sells or not, and I get a few hundred bucks if one sells and
> am stuck with the costs of the other frames. If a viewer doesn't like the
> freaking frame the print won't sell. I know this from experience.
> 
> So there it will be; a bare assed print. Sells or not but only the cost of the
> print and board. Plus you really see the print. It's as intimate as it gets.
> Books are tempting too but you can't go wall sized.
> 
> And more time for capturing light. Conventional standards don't benefit the
> photographer or enhance the interaction of the viewer one bit: only benefits
> the framers and gallery owners who couldn't care a less about the image: only
> if it sells.
> 
> Fighting a cold so please forgive any grouchiness. I may not sell anything but
> I won't go broke in the process. And if presentation is the primary factor for
> a print selling, well that certainly ain't very satisfying!
> G'nite all. :-)
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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