[Leica] How would you frame this gallery show?

[Don Dory]

Two thoughts.  First, mount the prints on standard board or gator board but
then mount on a larger board so the edges that will get bent and beat will
not be on the image.  Second, consider laminating the prints with a matt
laminate.  This will protect from fingerprints and other random accidents
that occur to public art that will be touched.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:22 AM, kyle cassidy on the lug <
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_photographs_librarians_at_the_american_library_association.html
> <
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/11/kyle_cassidy_photographs_librarians_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
>
>
>
>
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Don
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