[pure-silver] Re: Preservation of old photographs

Contact Jim Reilly at the Image Permanence Inst. at RIT. He has been working on issues like this for a long time. His email address is attached as cc.
Dave

----- Original Message ----- From: "Sauerwald Mark" <mark_sauerwald@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <dstulik@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:19 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Preservation of old photographs


Pure Silver list members -

My wife is image curator for the University of
Southern Maine, and got this call for help in her
mailbox, which she forwarded to me - and I am
forwarding on to you.

I can't think of a group more likely than this to be
able to help with this project.

Mark

>>> Dusan Stulik 02/15/06 12:50 PM >>>
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!!!!!!!

We live in a very interesting time of rapidly
changing technology. Digital imaging is quickly
replacing classical "chemical" photography. Because
of this transition, there is an acute danger that we
will lose vast amounts of information about all the
various methods and processes used in classical
photography, consequently making it much more
difficult to manage and preserve a vast portion of
the cultural history of photographs that exists in
museums, archives and private collections.

The main goal of the GCI's Research in the
Conservation of Photographs project is to develop a
methodology for the identification of more then 150
photographic processes that have been used since the
dawn of photography.

One very important tool in our research is the study
collection of photographic materials that we are
using in our everyday work. And this collection and
our research can greatly benefit from your help!

All of the materials and instruments once used as
part of "ancient" film technology are now usually
just relegated to collecting dust, having been
replaced by digital photography. Old unexposed and
expired films and photographic papers have little
practical use now... except that those materials
have tremendous value for our scientific research.

We are actively looking for any sources of old
photographic material that have a well-identified
manufacturer or some determinative information (such
as a production date):

B&W and color photographic films and plates of any
size and make;

Polaroid and Kodak instant photographic material of
any kind;

B&W and color photographic papers unused or even
partially used when in their original boxes;

We are also trying to put together a collection of
developed B&W and color photographs, slides and
transparencies where the date of the photograph or
the manufacturer of the photographic material can be
readily identified. We are not necessarily looking
for quality photographs....multiples or rejected
photographs will still fulfill our needs.

Please let us know if you would have any material
that would benefit our research. A number of our
colleagues from the GCI have already helped us to
build our study collection, and we hope that the
whole Getty community will help further support us
as we build this collection.

Thank you very much for your help!!!!!

On behalf of the GCI photos project,

Dusan Stulik
Getty Conservation Institute
phone #6224
dstulik@xxxxxxxxx


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