I'd go for a white matte and thin gray/silver frame (or thin black if it helps match whatever else you have hanging). The frame will separate the matte and photo from the environment's colors, but minimalist is good for this.
I'd go for a white matte and thin gray/silver frame (or thin black if it helps match whatever else you have hanging). The frame will separate the matte and photo from the environment's colors, but minimalist is good for this.
I second Mathieu's idea - I have become frankly tired of seeing black wood or metal or even the old silver metal neilson frames. I have a ton of them. I have an 1865 mammoth plate image that is in an cream double matte with a very light maple frame that works well. But I have been getting tired of the frame being more important that the image - as with a black frame. In the 1970's I saw a really great show that traveled to Washington State from the Eastman house collection that was all framed with white frames - it worked really well. I do like the idea also of a white frame with a floating image (spacer between the glass and image) for really large images. I think of Avedon's really huge images. The wall color does become important too. What is the wall color and lighting where this will go?
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