L-170v. The Care of Photographic Prints & Negatives in Collections - Advance Reading List

• Required Reading

  Day 1:

  Bertrand Lavédrine, A Guide to Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2003), 3–29 (“The Vulnerability of Photographs”).

  Spend time on Graphic Atlas to review different photographic print formats.

   

  Day 2:

  Bertrand Lavédrine with Jean-Paul Gandolfo, John McElhone, and Sibylle Monod, Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2009), 24–39, 50–63, and 238–269.

   

  Day 3:

  James M. Reilly, Care and Identification of 19^th-Century Photographic Prints (Rochester: Eastman Kodak Company, 1986), 82–97.

   

  Day 4:

  Sylvie Pénichon, Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and Care (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2013), 290–294.

   

  Day 5:

  Martin C. Jürgens, The Digital Print: Identification and Preservation (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2013), 241–255.

  Bertrand Lavédrine, A Guide to Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2003), 128–133 and 141 (mold chart)–145 (“Disaster Response,” “Molds”, and “Pests”)

• Additional Recommended Readings and Resources

  American Institute for Conservation Preventive Conservation Wiki

   

  Digital Print Preservation Portal from the Image Permanence Institute (IPI)

   

  IPI’s Methodology for Implementing Sustainable Energy-Saving Strategies for Collection Environments

   

  Hollinger Metal Edge for Archival Housing Supplies