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Item Number: 146049
Title: Platinum and Palladium: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Conservation
Author: McCabe, Constance (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780997867909
Description: Washington DC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, 2017. 29cm., hardcover, 456pp. full color publication with 47 contributors on the topic of platinum and palladium photographs.

Summary: Edited by Constance McCabe, 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.

Contents : A Selection of Masterworks in Platinum and Palladium

Section I: Technical Foundation - The Technical History and Chemistry of Platinum and Palladium Printing - Technical Highlights: Willis’s Transatlantic Connectio - Step-by-step: How Platinum and Palladium Prints Are Made - Additives Used in the Platinum Process - Platinum Paper Tins - Characterization, Degradation, and Analysis of Platinum and Palladium Prints - Platinum Prints on the Nano Scale - The Surface and Subsurface of a Historic Platinum Print - Reflective Sheen in Mercury-Processed Platinum Prints - Satista Prints and Fading - The Art and Science of Papermaking for Platinum Photographs - Manufactured Platinum and Faux Platinum Papers 1880s-1920s - Technical Highlights: Platinum Printing on Textiles - Platinum Toning of Silver Prints - Platinum Enlargements - The History and Use of Glycerine in Platinum Printing - Overview of Historical Practices for Postprocessing Toning and Intensifying Platinum Print - The Phenomenon of Platinum “Image Transfer” to Adjacent Papers - A Summary of Early Chemical and Physical Treatments of Platinum Prints - Investigating Chelating Agents for the Treatment of Platinum Prints - Caring for Platinum and Palladium Prints: Storage and Display - Technical Highlights: Nonadhesive Mounting Methods for Photographic Prints - Preservation Concerns for Edward Weston’s Platinum and Palladium Photographs - Microfade Testing

Section II: Photographic Art and Practice - F. Holland Day’s Platinum Prints: A Collaboration between Conservator and Curator - P. H. Emerson’s Platinum Prints and Photogravures - Technical Highlights: Distinguishing Platinum Prints from Photogravures - Art and Enlargement: The Platinum Prints of Thomas Eakins - Maurice Vidal Portman and the Platinotype in India - The Platinum Print Technology of the Austrian Pictorialist Heinrich Kühn - A Great Day for Palladio: Alfred Stieglitz’s Palladium Prints - Alfred Stieglitz’s Palladium Prints: Treated by Steichen, Constance McCabe and Christopher Maines - A Technical Study of Paul Strand's Platinum Prints - Paul Outerbridge: Abstraction, Advertising, and Platinum Prints

Section III: The Platinum Revival and Contemporary Platinum and Palladium Prints - Irving Penn’s Platinum-Palladium Prints - The Platinum Renaissance: Oral Histories of Platinum-Palladium Printers and Artists - Looking at a Platinum-Palladium Print - Glossary of Terms.

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