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Ideas for displaying prints?
Matthew Apgar, Photographer
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Bridgewater | NJ | USA | Posted: 12:56 AM on 12.10.05 |
->> Hey everyone,
I spent about 5 hours tonight making prints of my favorite 2005 photos to put up on the blank, white walls of my still relatively new apartment. Waking up every morning to bright, boring walls got to be a drag. All the prints I made were on the same paper size, 8.5 x 11. I was wondering if anyone had a good system for displaying prints, unframed and unmounted, in a way that would be easily and quickly switchable.
I thought about buying two long pieces of wood to mount parrallel to each other on the wall in the hallway mounted via screws into the wall, and have small grooves in like the center of each beam for the prints to fit into, and install track lighting later on. I thought this was a good idea...until I realized that I'd only be able to display prints one way--horizontally or vertically... duh!
So now here I am trying to figure out a way to display all these prints, some horizontal and some verticle, in my hallway. Anyone have any ideas that would be relatively inexpensive and look nice? Thanks! |
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Henry Hsu, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 2:21 AM on 12.10.05 |
| ->> How about double sided tape? Its not as classy but since you are already going with the unframed option. |
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Matthew Apgar, Photographer
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Bridgewater | NJ | USA | Posted: 2:30 AM on 12.10.05 |
| ->> That was an option, but I wanted something quicker, simpler and less tacky. A pop-in, pop-out sorta deal. The idea of quickly switching a print into pre-designed grooves seemed like a great idea until the whole horiz/vert thing threw me off. I was thinking maybe there's a display option involving something more modern/fashionable that would still look nice incase I ever have people over ;c) |
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Paul Carvill, Photographer
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Brigg | Lincs | UK | Posted: 2:35 AM on 12.10.05 |
->> What about if you get some mounting card and use something simple like spray mount. Then just use one length of wood to run at the top and hang the mounting cards from. Spray mount will then allow you to swap and change as you please.
Or get some cork tiles (or similar) and make a large display board.
Just a few ideas..... |
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Matthew Rosenberg, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | United States | Posted: 8:43 AM on 12.10.05 |
->> I have always liked the idea of using string and spring clips to hang work from the ceiling. Works in most places. if you don't have anything over head to attach the string you can use those 3M command strips. That way if you move out and have to return your apartment to when you move in, you can just pull them off the ceiling. And since they are on the ceiling no one sees them. Obviously you can substitute mono-filament or anything else for the string.
On a side note, something that I have always wanted to try is getting our press department to print out full size reproductions of some of my photos on the film printer. I want to hang them in front of windows, or back light them. Anybody have any experience with that. |
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DJ Werner, Photographer
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Coastal | NC | USA | Posted: 8:55 AM on 12.10.05 |
->> do you have 2 walls?
how about one vert pop in /out thing on one wall, and a horz on the other wall?
if you only have one wall open
how about cutting into thirds[the wood]
horz---vert---horz
D |
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Dick Van Nostrand, Photographer
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Bay City | MI | USA | Posted: 9:10 AM on 12.10.05 |
| ->> TRy attaching the mounted prints to a small block of wood and attaching the wood to the wall. The prints would appear to be floating away from the wall. |
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David Butler II, Photographer
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Somers | CT | USA | Posted: 9:46 AM on 12.10.05 |
->> If you've seen "War Photographer", Jame Nachtway has what looks like a good sized sheet of metal on the wall and uses small round magnets to hold prints to it... looks cool and seems easy to make.
good luck,
dbii |
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Henry Hsu, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Jack Howard, Photographer
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Somerville | NJ | USA | Posted: 7:19 PM on 12.10.05 |
->> Gaffer's tape will give you that hardworking photog street cred.
When's the housewarming party? |
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Matthew Apgar, Photographer
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Bridgewater | NJ | USA | Posted: 8:18 PM on 12.10.05 |
->> Hey again all,
Similar to Dick Van Nostrand's advice, I think I might be going with long strips of cork board, about 1.5-2" wide, running the length of my hallway. There would be parallel sets of at least five strips, spaced to accommodate both horizontal and verticle images. Unfortunately I'm not a huge fan of thumbtacks (or cork board), but this instance it might not matter much should I get the clear thumbtacks. It would be lightweight, quickly and easily changable, relatively inexpensive, and a nice way to view prints every day on my way to either the bedroom or the bathroom ;c)
Matt-I'm confused and curious about your ceiling/spring idea. Can you send me some pix or something about how you did that? The vision that's in my mind is probably way different that what you actually have in your place...As for displaying neg images in a window--a few friends of mind did that both at ISM and at their houses. Basically, they just printed the images to size and I think they scotch taped them to the shape of the window frames so it would be illuminated by sunlight. At ISM (Imaging Systems Management, the developing/printing lab at Rochester Institute of Technology), we had basically large lightboxes illuminating the negatives/positives, printed to scale. They always looked awesome. Of course your energy bill might be jeopardized with the quantity of lightboxes in use, but they're fun and relative easy to build.
David (dbii)--I have seen "War Photographer" at least 10 times and honestly this was one of the inspirations I had to create something similar. The way he edited, by way of seeing prints, was one of my main inspirations for the idea. While magnets seem like a fantastic idea of quickly and easily changing prints, I don't think the hallway wall area I have would best suit a metallic board. It would be too heavy, and I'm sure the hallway is way too long with other things like the thermostat, a light switch, etc, in the way.
Jack--extremely tentatively Dec 23. Might actually be after Christmas, closer to the new year. We're not sure yet. My mom's due for surgery three days after her birthday, on Dec 19, so I'm gonna see how that goes before giving the final go-ahead. Kathy, Dave and others have been pushing to see the trailer, but I never really had it in shape enough to do an official office party. My new apartment in Middlesex is much bigger but I'm still in that un-packing phase (yeah, three months here and I'm *still* unpacking...see why the trailer was a bad idea?) Anyways, once I get everything in shape and I have some finalized plans, everyone's welcome to join in the festivities. I just gotta make sure everything's ok with the fam first.
-Matt |
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Matthew Rosenberg, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | United States | Posted: 9:03 PM on 12.10.05 |
| ->> I don't have any good pictures to show using that set up. i had about 2 hours to set up prints for an auction and i didn't want to just tape them to the wall. This only works if you have the prints mounted some how. They need to be rigid. I placed two 3M command strip hooks on the wall about ten inches apart for a letter sized print hung horizontally. I would make them about 8" for a vertical. Loop string to both hooks and hang the prints using tape, clips, go nuts. You can hang two or three on top of each other if you want. Another idea, but a slightly more expensive is to use metal wire used for picture frames. Then you can solder those metal clips onto the wire, kind of bohemian. Just a thought. Anyway, make room for an extra print, mine is in the mail to you. |
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