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Article: A photographer's dilemma. (breaking away from traditional sizes for pictures, mats and frames; includes helpful information and tips for creating alternative photograph sizes)
- Article from:
- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
- Author:
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Have you ever attended an exhibition of graphic art that included paintings, etchings, lithographs, etc., along with photographic prints? If so, did you notice that the non-photographic 6.art varied widely in length-to-width ratios, while the photographs were almost always the same few ratios (e.g. 8 x 10 inch, 11 x 14 inch or 16 x 20 inch)? Why should that be so? I believe it is because photographers are conditioned by available paper sizes, and by negative frame sizes. Let's consider some of the problems faced by the artist-photographer as he strives to put the image of what is seen onto a piece of photographic paper. The first problem he meets is forced on him by the ...