42524
Accession Number
9686
Title Of Article Chaper
On preservation (As I See It column)
Title Of Journal Book
Popular photography
Volume
89
Issue
5
Pages
52-122
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Preservation techniques for photographic prints and means of archival processing are discussed as suggestions for subjects to be covered in a revision of Kodak Publication No. F-30 Preservation of Photographs. Also mentioned is a report which indicates black-and-white prints can be discolored by fumes from freshly applied alkyd oil-base paints in the same room while latex paints appear to cause no problems. (See Larry H. Feldman, Discoloration of Black-and-White photographic Prints, in Journal of Applied Photographic Engineering, February, 1981.) Also described is a simple method for determining the clearing time for photographic paper (in order to determine the correct fixing time). The process (from an article More on Archival Processing by Arnold Bailey and George Holstead in Darkroom Techniques, May, 1980) is carried out by taking a strip of unexposed photographic paper, putting it in stop bath for one minute, manipulating the strip in fixer so that it receives graduated fixing times through the length of the strip (20 to 200 seconds in 20-second increments for regular fixer, 5 to 50 seconds in 5-second increments for rapid fixer), running water rinse for one minute, developing in a standard developer in white light. The first pure white step marks the clearing time. Double that for optimal fixing time. -- AATA
pub_id
42524