|
    
| |
Making the Most of the Paper Past
Here's the spot we look at the paper past in a bit more detail.
As new paper gets less and less interesting, old paper becomes more so. At PaperMatch,
we'll try to do several things for you:
 | Provide you with new, beautiful (and perhaps controversial) ways of working with the
past. |
| Provide you with ways to use the past to help find clues to the Present, your
Present. |
| Provide you with helpful information about the paper past, how to preserve your part of
it, and what it means to preserve it. |
| Provide you with information about what's going on now with new paper. Give you
that perspective. |
So, A New Look at the Old. An Old Reflection on the Present. Here are some of the
current topics for discussion:
 |
Old Paper, New Artist Before the dominance of color lithography
(chromolithography) in the last part of the 19th century, prints were typically
handcolored. At PaperMatch we want to help revise that tradition, taking old paper and
adding new, sometimes unexpected beauty. Though the idea is anathema to purists, we think
that letting 20th century artists have their go
at the old paper just might be one reasonable way to begin
approaching and understanding the past.
|
|
The Fine Art of Digital Framing Follow
PaperMatch in this tutorial as we mat and frame digital images for the Web. Hey, do a
little HTML.
|
 |
Paper Clues examines how we can get clues to the
present from the Paper Past. New topics that have actually been around for a long time.
Old topics that suddenly seem relevant. We're trying to draw the links.
|
 |
Need some information? The Library of Congress is
spearheading efforts at Paper Preservation. And, through their American Memory project, they are bringing
the PaperPast to the Web.
|
|
Paper Watch. At PaperMatch we mainly
reexame the old. But what's going on with new paper? The fate (perhaps demise) of paper
via the Web will surely change our views of the Paper Past and of the collecting of
antique prints. You can help us figure it all out.
| If you are involved in the paper products industry, let us know of efforts to squeeze
more sheets from that tree or plant. |
| Perhaps you have come across some figures on photocopying? Paperless Offices? |
| And is it true that Starbucks is now distributing paper copies of www.Slate.com? |
All these matters have implications for us as collectors of the past. So, no link here
yet. But you can help us get where we're headed.
|
 |
Paper Whimsy. Well, collecting can't be all
serious. |
|
