How many Framed Prints in your Home?

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How many of your framed prints hang in your home? I am curious as to how much of an emphasis is placed on being able to hang a satisfying print vs. the investment in camera kit. I love both, but would curl up and die if I could not enjoy the fruits of my labour.

I am between homes, but have about 20 framed images and about another 30 awaiting printing and or framing. I personally find final satisfaction only when images are either mounted and in portfolios or on the wall (basically when finished for viewing of some kind).

What about you?
 
Call it a symptom of my own harsh critique but I only have one print hanging in my house and that was framed by my partner. There’s nothing else in my collection yet that I feel would be wall worthy. Maybe I’m waiting for that Ansel Adams or HCB masterpiece to develop in front of me…

I may be waiting a long time.
 
Me too !! I have 4 and 8 more is on the printing list, I'm just waiting for my new penhouse to finish so I can move in and decorate it.
 
My goal is always a print with personal work. I have about 50 framed prints at the moment that I rotate in and out. Usually around 20 actually on the walls at any time.

I actually prefer photo books, though. They seem more accessible. Since companies like Blurb came along, though, I'm putting more stuff into small books.
 
My wife is kickin me why I don't print and hang my photographs. I feel most of them are not worth printing. Those which I like will make her asking "why did you put this one on wall?" :)
 
I only have 3 framed photos in my living room.

One is a picture of a good friend who passed away just over a year ago, I feel my shot of him really captured the way he lived. see it here

The other is a handsome picture that I took of my sister's dog.

The third is a picture of me at the grave of Frank Luke Jr at the US Military Cemetery in Romagne (France) taken by a friend of mine.
 
I will be standardising on certain frame sizes to allow for rotation of mounted images with a finite number of frames.

I am looking at the books option too (although I would more likely aim for a run and hope to sell them!), but still find I prefer nothing more than a well lit and nicely framed print.
 
btgc said:
My wife is kickin me why I don't print and hang my photographs. I feel most of them are not worth printing.
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That's my excuse too. My wife has given up and started hanging other artwork. I think she might be doing this to get me all riled up!

Right now only one print of mine is hanging, and that one was made almost 7 years ago.
 
I have loads of my stuff all over my house! Looks great. What's the point in taking all those pictures if you never get to enjoy them, and share them with your friends & family?
 
On the walls I have about 5 or so of my photos framed. (and 2 paintings). But I have another dozen or so in storage, and another 10 framed pieces in transit from the gallery I used to show at (now closed, thanks to the economy).
5 is about the most space I usually have to hang my work, since I also have a small art and vintage poster collection that takes up a fair amount of space.
I'm far more likely to frame something of mine because it's going in a show than I am just for myself. FWIW I do have a shelf full of portfolios filled with prints though.
-Brian
 
I have several of my prints hanging on the walls of our house? My wife encourages it actually!
I also have an area in our dining room where I hang framed prints that I get from other photogs in print trades.
 
I only have a couple of prints of my own work up around the apartment. My wife regularly suggests that we go through my pictures from the last few years and get some printed and framed. I'll get around to it some time.

There's plenty of other photography and art on the walls though.
 
Right now I have about a dozen. The oldest one is dated 1906 which together with another, both 11x14, by the same photorapher dated 1918 depict square rigged whaling ships at the docks in my home town of New Bedford, MA. and there's one by Nathan Benn of some hippies taken in the late 60's. He's now head of Magnum photo agency but back then he was in high school and used my darkroom all the time. I had several prints by Jerry Uelsmann that I'd purchased from him in the 60's but sold them about ten years ago when their value had gotten to the point where they exceeded the limits of my homeowners insurance without a seperate rider. There are about half a dozen of my own prints on the wall, most dating to the 60's and 70's. They're mixed in with some original drawings and paintings, but again I've sold a couple because their value had increased to the point where they should have been kept in a vault.
 
9 framed prints of my own, 2 prints from friends and 2 other prints from friends awaiting frames. I have others framed and rotate them occasionally.
 
I have something like 20, and a couple of small paintings. As some others have mentioned I've standardized on 5x7 and 8x10, and rotate lots of different prints through (though there are a few, like a shot of my little sister at the famous window of the Texas Schoolbook Repository, that I've kept up for years because they seem to just "fit").

I want to put up some larger prints (24x30 or so) and am trying to decide if I should buy a folder and shoot some medium format, or do some tri-x enlargements of a few specific pictures where I think the grain would enhance the large look.
 
I just started lately, for some odd reason. Now that I found a place to print my negatives as 8X12 prints (mostly uncropped), and another place to sell me 10X14 frames with 8X12 mats, I ordered a mess of them. I have 7 framed photos in my home and my wife has 4 in her office. In my office, all I have is a calendar and a Hopper poster. Go figure.
 
I have photos of my daughter framed, including an 11x14 that I printed in the darkroom. None of my other work has yet made it on my walls, though I have some ready to go.
 
For the last few years I've been printing the image centered on 11x14 or 8x10 paper with wide borders and I frame them unmounted ~ no matt. It makes it fast and easy to switch prints in the frames. The frames are front loading black plastic frames showing only about 1/8 inch around the front, and most of my prints are full frame with a narrow black line around them. My negative carrier is filed out and I use a four blade Saunders easel.
 
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