Title & Author:

Platinum and palladium photographs : technical history, connoisseurship, and preservation / edited by Constance McCabe.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Photographic Materials Group, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, [2017]
©2017

Description:

504 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Malcolm Daniel -- Preface and acknowledgments / Constance McCabe -- Notes to the reader -- The subtle beauty of platinum and palladium photographs / Andrea Nelson -- Plates : a selection of masterworks in platinum and palladium -- Technical foundation -- The technical history and chemistry of platinum and palladium printing / Mike Ware -- Technical highlights : -- Willis's transatlantic connection : Alfred Clements / Shannon Thomas Perich and Mike Ware -- A step-by-step guide to platinum and palladium printing / Caroline Minchew -- Additives used in the platinum process / Alice Carver-Kubik, Saori Kawasumi Lewis, and Andrew Robb -- Platinum paper tins / Caroline Minchew -- Characterization, degradation, and analysis of platinum and palladium prints / Matthew L. Clarke -- Technical highlights : -- The surface and subsurface of a historic platinum print / Patrick Ravines, Natasha Erdman, and Rob McElroy -- Platinum-palladium prints on the nanoscale / Matthew L. Clarke, Keana Scott, and Alline Myers -- Reflective sheen in mercury-processed platinum prints / Erin L. Murphy, Christopher McGlinchey, and Adrienne Lundgren -- Satista prints and fading / Constance McCabe, Christopher McGlinchey, Matthew L. Clarke, and Christopher Maines -- The art and science of papermaking for platinum photographs / Cyntia Karnes -- Manufactured platinum and faux platinum papers 1880s-1920s / Sarah S. Wagner -- Technical highlights : -- Platinum printing on textiles / Ronel Namde -- Platinum toning of silver prints / Ronel Namde and Joan M. Walker -- Platinum enlargements / Greta Colleen Glaser -- The history and use of glycerine in platinum printing / Adrienne Lundgren -- Overview of historical practices for postprocessing toning and intensifying platinum prints / Erin L. Murphy -- The phenomenon of platinum "image transfer" to adjacent papers / Jennifer K. Herrmann, Sara Shpargel, Lauren Varga, Mark Ormsby, and Karen Gaskell -- A summary of early chemical and physical treatments of platinum prints / Erin L. Murphy -- Investigating chelating agents for the treatment of platinum prints / Matthew L. Clarke and Dana Hemmenway -- Caring for platinum and palladium prints : storage and display / Jennifer Jae Gutierrez -- Technical highlights : -- Nonadhesive mounting methods for photographic prints / Jennifer McGlinchey Sexton and Jennifer Jae Gutierrez -- Preservation concerns for Edward Weston's platinum and palladium photographs / Margaret Wessling -- Microfade testing / Christopher Maines
Photographic art and practice : -- Discovering F. Holland Day's platinum prints : a collaboration between conservator and curator / Verna Posever Curtis and Adrienne Lundgren -- Peter Henry Emerson's platinum prints and photogravures / Philippa Wright and John Taylor -- Technical highlight : -- Distinguishing platinum prints from photogravures / Constance McCabe -- Art and enlargement : the platinum prints of Thomas Eakins / Lee Ann Daffner -- Maurice Vidal Portman and the platinotype in India / John Falconer -- The platinum print technology of the Austrian Pictorialist Heinrich Kühn / Andreas Gruber -- A great day for palladio : Alfred Stieglitz's palladium prints / Sarah Greenough -- Alfred Stieglitz's palladium prints : treated by Steichen / Constance McCabe, Christopher Maines, Mike Ware, and Matthew L. Clarke -- A technical study of Paul Strand's platinum prints / Alisha Chipman and Matthew L. Clarke -- Paul Outerbridge : abstraction, advertising, and platinum prints / Linde B. Lehtinen
The platinum revival and contemporary platinum and palladium prints : -- Irving Penn's platinum-palladium prints / Vasilios Zatse and Constance McCabe -- The platinum renaissance : oral histories of platinum-palladium printers and artists / Tatiana Cole -- Looking at a platinum/palladium print / Pradip Malde -- Glossary of terms / Gregory J. Hill -- Conversion of obsolete units of measurement / Mike Ware -- Selected bibliography / Sarah S. Wagner -- Contributors.

Summary:

The volume presents the results of a four-year inter-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative led and organized by the National Gallery of Art. Contributions by 47 leading photograph conservators, scientists, and historians provide detailed examinations of the chemical, material, and aesthetic qualities of this important class of rare, beautiful, and technically complex photographs. The volume will help those who care for photograph collections gain a thorough appreciation of the technical and aesthetic characteristics of platinum and palladium prints and scientific basis for their preservation.

ISBN:

0997867906
9780997867909

Subject:

Photography Printing processes Platinotype.
Photography, Artistic History.
Photographs Conservation and restoration.
Platinotypie.
Photographie artistique Histoire.
Photographies Conservation et restauration.
palladium process.
Photography, Artistic.

Form/genre:

Palladium prints.
Platinum prints.
platinum prints.
palladium prints.
History.

Added entries:

McCabe, Constance, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299147
Call No.: BIB 245256
Status: Available