Topic: creative displays

[HolgaJen]

I am in need of ideas, and just plain curious as to what you all do in regards to displaying your photos/art.

Do you have them displayed in your home? on every wall?  other people's homes? at work?  how do you like to display them?

Do you have portfolios/albums/scrapbooks? What do they look like?  I've been trying to find some sort of book for my Holga photos, its hard to find SQUARE things ~ or is it just me?  I finally tracked down some sheets that hold 5x5's but I was hoping to find something a bit bigger.  Right now my stuff is all over the place, mostly in piles lol.  I am in serious need of organization. 

[LT]

Some of mine are framed on the wall, some of them are framed on other peoples walls, some of them are in old paper boxes, and I'm saving my pennies for a nice portfolio box to put the best in. 

[Dave_M]

I mount and overmat my better prints to enter my local camera club competitions. They get displayed (and talked about) on the night. Then I may use them for other events. After that they go in a plastic bag in the cupboard in the hall  I should really frame a few and put them up.

I find it useful having digitized versions to flick through on the computer when I'm in a hurry. Sorry if thats blasphemy

Jenv101- I like the idea of a scrapbook for prints! Thats got me thinking- I could standardize on 8X8 prints and only have a few pre-cut overmats for when I need them. Given my hatred of cutting overmats I think you've just saved me a lot of grief (and swearing) 

[tread]

I bought 3 really nice 48 page portfolios, acid-free, black mats, yadda, yadda. The pages are 8.5X11.  I printed 8X10s and have filled up the first one and it looks pretty okay on the first pass. I also framed about a dozen prints over the Xmas holidays for myself...I had been a good boy and thought I deserved it...I have yet to hang the first one. As for something different. I safety pin prints to my jackets every now and again (nothing too freaky just one or two small prints) as sort of a walking, drunken and sexy as hell moving one-man gallery. ahem.

[blue]

Not square, but has a beautiful acrylic square window on the outside: my new Pina Zangaro Boro Portfolio, sanded aluminium with acrylic window about 6" square on the outside. Perfect portfolio for transporting and displaying those square format shots. Not cheap, and luckily for me, I got mine for my birthday! Cool stuff...I adore this, without the square window it just wouldn't be the same.
Blue

[beck]

I've been pondering the same thing for a while now...and while the local photo lab doesn't exactly have what I'm looking for, I did see a decent one at Freestyle and may do more searching elsewhere. I've not many prints to place in one though, but I'm slowly working on that and would like one to fit 5x5's and perhaps 10x10. Not sure really. We shall see how the funds look there after...


..and super neat idea pinning your work to the jacket, Tread. I think you had the drunken part right...then you lost me with the other...har.

[aboot]

if you really, really want to get fancy and, i guess, make them look really professional looking up on your wall and stuff... you can do some of these ideas.  i'm taking a color printing class and this is required of me so i basically had to figure it all out myself...

first get some 4-ply museum board -- http://www.archivalmethods.com/Product.cfm?categoryid=41&Productid=88 ... preferably 2 pieces for one photo -- one as a backing and the other as a window matting

then get a mat cutter  --  http://www.utrechtart.com/dsp_view_product.cfm?classId=1813&subclassID=181311&brandname=Logan&item=36157... i screwed on a piece of wood on an old table as a straight edge and used that to cut the mats...

find some corner mounts  -- http://www.archivalmethods.com/Product.cfm?categoryid=8&Productid=94    to hold the picture on your backing...

then get some japanese kozo paper  --  http://www.craftsbyhand.com/site/department.cfm?id=DBA53575-112F-AF64-DE17A4EC7FB961E2&killnav=1   --  to use as a hinge to hold your 4-ply back mount and window matting together...

for instructions on that, try here  -- http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf66.htm... they'll tell you how to make the paste for the paper too...

you can also find frames  --  http://www.archivalmethods.com/category.cfm?categoryid=3    if you ever end up needing to use them for any kind of show or want to put them on a friends wall or whatever.

this is top notch stuff (all archival)... i'm planning on putting two of my b/w photo's in a local showing here... big money prizes and stuff.  so hopefully i'll get some money back and more (but i doubt it) .  i feel like i should be paying back all of the money that my wife has been giving to me so willingly.   

ok... enough of that...

[CarlRadford]

Why not make your own hand made books and then you've crafted the whole process - happy to email instructions if required! I tend to give loads away - I don't think I produce anything that is worth paying money for - the fact that they might put a copy on a wall is reward enough for me!

Carl

[HolgaJen]

Hey Carl! I'd be interested in how you make your books~ thats a good idea!

So far i've only found 5x5 protectors here http://www.archivalusa.com/prinfil555x51.html

[lauraburlton]

Or you can go on the cheap and buy frames with precut matts from IKea and print to size. I think they look pretty good but they are not archival...