Borders

[Walter]

Preparing work on speculation is getting expensive. What with the matting and sometimes framing, then storing the things etc.

A couple months ago I saw a photographer print 12x18 images on 13x19 paper, then sign the white border remaining between the edges and the image. It got me to thinking. Would it be too strange to do this with standard size prints for standard size frames for shows?

For instance, maybe a one inch border on a 24"x36" paper (22"x34" resulting image), sign it, mount it on a foam core and slap that bad dog in a standard size frame?

Too out there?

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[Aggie]

I've seen it done before, not strange at all. In facty many top photographers do this, but put a second mat over the top still exposing the white space around the picture. Bruce Barnbaum is one.

[Walter]

I've seen it done before, not strange at all. In facty many top photographers do this, but put a second mat over the top still exposing the white space around the picture. Bruce Barnbaum is one.

I'm trying to get out of providing the matting for the customer and have a display print in the frame--just sell the bare print. The customer can have their own mat and frame done somewhere. So, the single matted display/framed piece would be a size down from the frame? ie: 20x30 (18x28 image), matted to fit in a 24x36 frame?

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[ann]

i have taken to doing a lot of inkjet prints this way; however, when i frame them i use interspacing to get the print from touching the glass.

for instance, i may put a 6x9 image on a piece of 11x17 paper, placing the image so it is musuem /salon hung; or it may be a bit bigger, just depends.