Caring for Cultural Material 1

Caring for Cultural Material 2

Damage and Decay

Managing Collections

Managing People

Handling, Transportation, Storage and Display

Glossary

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Caring for Cultural Material 1
In this volume:
– Paper
– Books
arrow Photographs
– Paintings
– Electronic Information Media
– Acknowledgments
Photographs
In this chapter:
– Objectives
– Introduction
arrow Types of photographs
– What are the most common types of damage
– Common causes of damage
– The do's and don'ts of handling photographs
– The do's and don'ts of repair and labelling
– Storing photographs
– Practical steps you can take to improve your photographic storage
– Easy do-it-yourself methods for storing photographs
– Displaying photographs
– Summary of conditions for storage and display
– Photographs in Australia's climactic zones
– Some miscellaneous advice
  MORE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHS
– A brief overview of photographic deterioration mechanisms
– A brief overview of the chemistry of photography
– Layer structures for various photographs
– A brief history of the development of photography
– Identification of historic photographs
– For further reading
– Self-evaluation quiz
– Answers to self-evaluation quiz

 

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Photographs

Types of photographs

There is a huge range of different types of photographs. These sections on keeping photographs apply, among others, to:

  • daguerreotypes;

  • ambrotypes;

  • colour photographs;

  • opaltypes;

  • salted paper prints;

  • platinotypes;

  • cyanotypes;

  • albumen prints;

  • collodion prints;

  • carbon prints;

  • silver-gelatine prints;

  • slides;

  • safety film negatives;

  • tintypes;

  • glass plate negatives;

  • Cibachromes; and

  • modern colour prints on resin-coated papers.

These types of photographs differ in their components and chemistry, and the base on which the photograph is produced.

For more information
For more information about the components, chemistry, structure and history of these different types of photographs, please see the section More About Photographs later in this chapter

 

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