No Rectangles No Edge Prints?

[Tin Can]

I dislike edges, frames, rules

How do we do this

Robert Irwin explores this well


I am entranced by his light, easy to walk right in TO by mistake done that

Is there history of edgeless prints

[Tin Can]

Perhaps I seek an old dream/nightmare

For years nightly, I would dream I was in an endless white space

No way out, as fast as I could move in the dream, there was no end, nor could I SEE an end

I seemed to be ON endless white AND surrounded by it

How do I photograph that?

I also did not see my body, so nothing to photograph

Now it comes to me, I was, a dot, tiny microscopic dot

not sure I want that dream now

perhaps I was internalizing geometry, an endless line, with endless points subdivided

in all directions

[LabRat]

Well, one thing I think a no-no for me is no black borders... They seem to box or "cage" in the image...

Bernice Abbot wrote years ago about something she described as "organic borders", where there is a easy transition between image and what the viewer might imagine beyond borders... I take that might mean to not complicate edges much, and be careful to allow compositions to start to emerge within frame, and be careful to not allow dynamics near edges to start to flow out of frame area...

Subtle, but don't complicate edges to much...

Steve K

[Ironage]

An old fashion way to more natural boarders was the oval vignette.

[Tin Can]

Yes, but it was also used to hide wet plate edge defects

I do like oval frames for portraits

Since we are now trapped inside DIgi space, even if we use rounded, it must be placed within a Digi rectangle for 'sharing'

Early TV was round, I bought one 25 years ago exactly this, threw out the guts and put a 13" modern? color tube in it, fit very well

ALL visitors asked how I got it to work

I saw the Beatles on a 8" round TV with 20 people

An old fashion way to more natural boarders was the oval vignette.