Where do people hang photographs
Apr 4, 2014 12:41:19 #
I'll be right up front: this is a bit of market survey work.
I'm looking for information about where people and organizations display photographs. Note: this is about physical prints, not digitally displayed images.
What sizes do they want?
Do they hang photographs (vs displaying on a desk or shelf)? Where?
Who buys images in these categories?
General landscapes
Exotic landscapes
Nature (animal and bird) scenes
Portraits
Head shots
Family portraits
Commercial
I'll report the results I get.
To all who contribute, a very special thanks.
To those who don't choose to respond, thanks anyway.
I'm looking for information about where people and organizations display photographs. Note: this is about physical prints, not digitally displayed images.
What sizes do they want?
Do they hang photographs (vs displaying on a desk or shelf)? Where?
Who buys images in these categories?
General landscapes
Exotic landscapes
Nature (animal and bird) scenes
Portraits
Head shots
Family portraits
Commercial
I'll report the results I get.
To all who contribute, a very special thanks.
To those who don't choose to respond, thanks anyway.
Apr 4, 2014 12:56:36 #
coolhoosier wrote:
I'll be right up front: this is a bit of market s... (show quote)
I have always found that hanging them on the wall works best. I'm sorry. I know it's a smartass answer but It was just too tempting to resist.
Apr 4, 2014 14:02:32 #
We have our upstairs hall filled with pictures from our great-grandparents down to our grandchildren. They are as big as 11X14 and as little as 2x3. We have a 30X40 beach sceene in the livingroom on canvas and photshopped brush strokes. Our kitchen has chicken pictures many painted but a small one on the farm with her half brothers in the chicken run from the '30s and two 11X14 of friends chickens in their yard. - Dave
Apr 4, 2014 14:15:00 #
Since moving into out new home in October, I wanted to figure out a way to hang photos without putting too many holes in the walls. I also wanted a way to be able to easily change things out so it doesn't appear stale after a few months. We settled on ikea ribba photo ledges with heavy matte backed photos or frameless canvas prints.
I order about every month or so from mpix and freshen things up.
http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/50152595/
I order about every month or so from mpix and freshen things up.
http://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/50152595/
Apr 4, 2014 14:48:13 #
Hanging in clear sleeves in binders. Beautiful pictures are a dime a dozen. Can pull 'em out at any time and glance through them. No vanity here.
Apr 4, 2014 15:02:23 #
For special trips I make table top books that tell the story of the trip. For everyday shots I have binders with various sizes.
I have several ready for framing. I do my own framing so its a matter of creating the time. I just freed up a nice long wall that I'll be lighting to use as a gallery.
Plus I do calendars with the best picture from the month and give 10-12 of them to friends.
I have several ready for framing. I do my own framing so its a matter of creating the time. I just freed up a nice long wall that I'll be lighting to use as a gallery.
Plus I do calendars with the best picture from the month and give 10-12 of them to friends.
Apr 4, 2014 22:47:47 #
Look at the gallery hanging systems at A&S Hanging Systems and others. $150 covers a wall and no holes except for a few along the ceiling line.
Apr 4, 2014 22:49:23 #
GC likes NIKON wrote:
Look at the gallery hanging systems at A&S Hanging Systems and others. $150 covers a wall and no holes except for a few along the ceiling line.
Here: http://www.ashanging.com/
Apr 4, 2014 22:56:10 #
I have prints and canvases in my home, everything from 8x10s in picture frames in the bath up to a 30x60 canvas above my bed.
I have a whole wall that is nothing but black and white pictures of our travels and family ranging in sizes, it's visually very appealing.
I have a whole wall that is nothing but black and white pictures of our travels and family ranging in sizes, it's visually very appealing.
Apr 4, 2014 22:56:50 #
I hang my own pictures in my home. Print sizes vary from 11x14 to 16x24 to 20x30. I have given up printing my own because of the cost of operating and maintaining a wide format printer. I get them printed by a local shop. I do my own framing but often go to a framing shop for mats. I live in a very scenic part of the country and lots of businesses hang huge prints of local scenery in their reception rooms and hallways. The local hospital has dozens of 20x30 prints hanging all over the building. I guess the answer is that "people" hang photos anywhere they want and as big as the location and budget can stand.
Apr 4, 2014 22:58:40 #
I have a set of oil paintings that have hung in my living room for 35 years, when I move the new place isn't "home" until they are on the wall. And yes, I like them as much now as when I bought them. I also have a matched set of 4 frames, 1@11x14 and 3@8x10, that I change out about once a year using my own photos. Family pictures are in a Kodak frame (the electric kind that changes every few minutes). I don't like a lot of clutter on the walls...the only thing in the kitchen/dining room is a framed mousepad from the King Tut exhibit when it was in Denver and a clock.
Apr 5, 2014 07:20:02 #
coolhoosier wrote:
I'll be right up front: this is a bit of market s... (show quote)
Our pictures are mostly family, landscape, and wildlife. Some are on the fireplace mantle and others are hung on walls.
Apr 5, 2014 09:53:03 #
Because my wife is an artist most of the work we have hanging is original art.
Most of our family photos are stored in a totally disorganized fashion in big plastic bins (note the plural since we have inherited two generations worth of family photos from two families).
Since in the days of film I only used slide film my transparencies are stored in a single shoe box (okay its really a boot box) in my office closet.
Jerry
Most of our family photos are stored in a totally disorganized fashion in big plastic bins (note the plural since we have inherited two generations worth of family photos from two families).
Since in the days of film I only used slide film my transparencies are stored in a single shoe box (okay its really a boot box) in my office closet.
Jerry
Apr 5, 2014 10:11:15 #
Framing can be expensive. I bought a inexpensive metal frame to enclose a piece of sheet metal from an air conditioning business, painted the metal sheet black, bought small magnets from a hobby shop and mount pictures, using the magnets to hold them in place, as I choose to print them. This makes changing pictures much less a hassel.
Apr 5, 2014 10:40:17 #
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