Treatment Options for Photographic Materials may include

PRESERVING & PROTECTING PHOTOGRAPHS

Hundreds of millions of photographs have been lost over the years to natural disasters, wars, and the age-old urge to clean house. So there is something special about every old photograph that's survived. Someone decided to make it... someone else, to buy it... and a lot of someones decided to keep it over the years. Whether you're the caretaker of a treasured family album or a collector who has searched out the classics of photography, it's important to preserve and protect the images you value. Fortunately, there is new information about what to do and what to avoid. And there are specialized products available to help.

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Nineteenth Century Iran

Qajar Era

The Qajar dynasty
Persian: دودمان قاجار‎ Doodmān e Qājār; also romanised as Ghajar, Kadjar, Qachar etc.; Azerbaijani: Qacar) was a Persianize native Iranian royal family of Turkic origin,which ruled Persia (Iran) from 1785 to 1925. The Qajar family took full control of Iran in 1794, deposing Lotf 'Ali Khan, the last of the Zand dynasty, and re-asserted Persian sovereignty over large parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia. In 1796, Mohammad Khan Qajar seized Mashhad with ease, which was under Durrani suzerainty,putting an end to the Afsharid dynasty, and Mohammad Khan was formally crowned as shah after his sacking of Tblisi.In the North Caucasus, South Caucasus, and Central Asia the Qajar dynasty eventually permanently lost many of its controlled areas to the Russians in the course of the 19th century.

Dervishes were a common subject for foreign photographers of the late Qajar period.

These photographs helped to create and fed the stereotypes of exotic Easterners, but nevertheless they are useful historical records of the period.

Antoin Sevruguin

Photographs of Iranian dervishes by Antoin Sevruguin are mostly taken around 1900 to 1905.

Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov

Photographs of the Russian photographer, Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov, are mostly taken during the early 1870s during his trip to Iran.

IZMIR ' de DERVISLER 1903

DERVISLER URFA 1905

Antoin Sevruguin

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Friday, 12 September 2014

Caring your Treasures

A photograph can be one of many processes in which light-sensitive media are employed to create a visible image. The prevalence of photographs allows us to forget that they are potentially fragile objects that can be easily damaged by careless handling, improper storage, and exposure to environmental influences such as light, humidity, and temperature.

In caring for a photographic collection, it is important to know that various components comprise the structure of a photograph. The interaction of these components, with each other and with their environment, has a lasting effect on the longevity of the image. Most photographs consist of a final image material, a binder layer, and a primary support. The final image material—commonly silver, platinum, organic dyes, or pigments—creates the image we see. The binder layer is a transparent substance such as albumen, collodion, or gelatin in which the final image layer is suspended. The binder and final image material are applied to a primary support, usually paper, glass, metal, or plastic. Although many photographs have this three-part structure, individual images may have additional components. For instance, color, coatings, original frames, and cases need to be considered as part of the photographic object.

When to Consult a Conservator

If your photograph requires special attention or you are unsure about how to protect it, you should contact a conservator
cleaning, stabilization, restoration, preparation for exhibition, consulting.
Any of these may include: Examination, assesment of condition, damage and evaluation of costs for treatment. Conservation treatments on any type of photographic and photomecanical process (Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, photographs on paper and prints, photographs on glass, digital ) Most commonly including cleaning (wet and dry), repair of tears and losses, stabilization of support (lining), removal reduction of stains, retouching, flattening and archival matting. Recommendations for preventive conservation for private and museum collections. This includes the study of environemental conditions, storage, handling and transport, technical collections surveys (processes identification...) and written reports (including photographic documentation). Training offered in the identification of the photographic processes and in preventive conservation and restoration of photographic materials. Digital restoration and archival printing. Archival matting. [ ... ]
A condition report, treatment proposal and cost estimate are done after examination of the work.
The work will only begin after a signed copy of the proposal is returned.

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