Photographs serve as a cache file of all the memories you’ve created in the past. It brings about great memories and is often known to lighten up your day. Having photos hidden in photo albums doesn’t actually make sense as you would collect them and put it back to a secure place. You do not get to see it everyday and so, to bring about a change to the standard approach, framing is a more suitable alternative. While you frame a photo, you would serve a couple of purposes where you would see the photo everyday and feel good. Moreover, your walls would be embellished with true-to-life photo frames with recollections framed in them.
One such vivid framing option is photo block mounting. It doesn’t require the standard photo frames around the photograph, but the photos are mounted onto light foam or a wooden board. The look is kept sound with a simple enclosure behind, thus giving it a frameless look without combining heavy frames.
The prevalence of photo block mounting
Apart from people using this style of framing for personal photographs and artwork, several businesses are using this as a marketing option in public places. You would often notice it when visiting shopping malls, movie theatres, and similar public places where there are commercial advertisements with engaging graphics mounted on the walls. This is something unique and it differs from the usual frames while setting up commercial signage. It is also used by painters and artists to display their artwork in public. It gives a realistic look to the picture behind it and thus making it look extremely attractive.
Kinds of Mounting
Mounting is usually preferred by people who feel that the essence of the photograph should be portrayed for the viewer to understand the emotions behind it. It is commonly available in two types.
- Dry Mounting – This method involves pressing a photograph or artwork to a hardboard behind it. It is often pressed with heat or vacuum pressing plans to keep the picture intact for a long time. This method allows the print to stay intact and prevents crinkling that is often noticed in typical photo frames. It is a permanent and thus expensive photograph which also makes it irreplaceable, or artwork shouldn’t be dry mounted.
- Conservation mounting – This includes the usage of hinges, adhesives, tapes, and more which invite a time-consuming procedure but is worth the time as it doesn’t cause any damage to the artwork, it doesn’t add on to the cost and it can be replaced whenever one wants to. This method is used by artists to display their artwork and used by businesses to bring commercial attention to their business.
