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instruments once used as part of "ancient" film technology are now usually just relegated to collecting dust, having been replaced by digital photography.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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