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Face Mounting Photo prints behind Plexi, what is it and why do so many people want it?
A special production method is used to glue the Photo. In this way the image is protected against scratching, dirt and premature aging. A unique way to preserve photographs and for the presentation of photographs in a museum or gallery environment.
While standard framing provides great flexibility, by choice of materials and colours of frame and overmat, to optimally match a picture to your home decor, face-mounting behind plexiglass (acrylic glass) is by far the most impressive way of presenting a photograph.
This face mounting technique has only recently gained wide acceptance among museums and art galleries. Mainly because it seems to add a third dimension to the two-dimensional image and provides a brilliance and intensity unobtainable by any standard framing.
Face mounting production technique:
The end product contains mainly three parts:
• A photograph,
• 100% clear glue
• 2 mm piece of plexiglass or other acrylic glass.
This production technique involves a permanently elastic, smooth fusion of paper print and acrylic glass. By using a special adhesive, an airtight bond is created with no air bubbles, fixing the print with its front side to the back of UV-resistant acrylic glass.
By directly gluing the front side of the photograph to the back of a sheet of plexiglass, any light reflections between the photograph and the glazing of an ordinary frame is eliminated, thus increasing image sharpness, contrast, and colour saturation.
When light penetrates the layer of acrylic glass, the light reflection on the print's surface is completely different from the effect when a print is framed with a passe-partout and ordinary glass. With this unique production method the diffusion of light diminishes because of the homogenous quality of acrylic glass. As a result the colours seem sharper, more brilliant, more intense and more immediate.
The assembly of plexiglass, photograph and protective back layer is attached to a recessed aluminium frame which serves as a spacer between picture and wall, providing the impression of the photograph to be hanging in the air.
Air Frame Perspex: De foto of poster wordt achter glashelder glanzend acrylaat (perspex) gemonteerd. Acrylaat is UV bestendig en 2 mm dik. Op de achterzijde wordt een 1 mm aluminium plaat gemonteerd met aan de achterkant een aluminiumframe. Dit frame is 12 mm dik, zodat dit een zwevend effect geeft (Air Frame).
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