To museums, galleries, collectors, historical societies, libraries, and individuals. Range from the treatment of individual fine art prints, to the care of large print and negative collections. Both online and in-person, historic photographic sample sets.

A daily blog of a trip to Paris by the 4th cycle of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the George Eastman House. Written by Gawain Weaver and Rachel Wetzel. Thursday, September 28, 2006. Flea Markets! Last but not least! Many of the fellows spent time viewing the six or seven Lippmann early color plates that were on the table for our viewing. There were really just too many amazing images to see;. The Gustay Le Gray .

Documenting the Graphics Survey Project. Graphics Inventory Project Completed! Written by James DaMico, Special Collections Curator. At 5pm on July 31st, the most comprehensive inventory of our Graphics collection backlog was completed. A total of 7,800. New catalog entries were created, and 257,524. The 7,800 catalog records represent collection level and single item entries. This total represents approximately 800.

Friday, February 20, 2015. Why not all scanned images are created equal. Recently I was reading the magazine section of a newspaper and was surprised by the poor quality of some of the images in an article I was reading. The images were blurred in parts and had lost resolution and information, I suspect due to the fact that they were never scanned properly in the first place, that is, the resolution they were scanned at was not sufficient for publication.

X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Photographic Materials. Tales of handheld XRF analysis of photographs at Gawain Weaver Art Conservation. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Stabilization and Gold Toning in Salt Prints. By analyzing the two prints with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, it is possible to see the differences between their chemical compositions.