hanging VanDyke Prints?

I'm working on some Van Dykes and am curious as to what peoples

feelings are re: hanging them for display? to hang/matte them

conventionally or display them like prints/etchings to accentuate the

fiber based nature? curious as to thoughts....

 

thanks-

tom

Virtually all of the alternative process prints I've seen have been behind glass for protection at museums, galleries and public arts shows. It's difficult to fully appreciate every aspect of a fine print this way. I'd rather see them without the glazing.

Since I don't really think my cyanotypes and Van Dyke prints are 'fine art', I just mount, mat and frame them like anything else. Some have the brush stroke edges showing, some don't. But I don't do anything special for them. Cheers, Richard

Prints I don't want under glazing I mount as follows:<P>

First I mount them with PMA on a piece of mountboard. This I mount [again with PMA] on a sheet of non-glare acrylic, which I then frame, with an appropriate piece of matboard behind the acrylic.

I took a cue from a friend who works on charcoal. I mount and matte them in the same watercolor paper the print was made on. Sometimes presented in frames with no glass, or with no frame at all. My fav is one without a frame, the matte paper is torn all the way around instead of cleanly cut, as well as the window.

 

Personally, I like to get right up on a contact print and scrutinize it, so I don't like them under glass. I presume/hope folks who view my work might feel the same way. It's not a big tragedy if someone gets curious and touches the paper, since (clean) fingerprints don't show on the WC paper.