I should have put this in my original post. The photo is not technically part of the museum collection. The marketing team here keeps a lot of photos to use in different things and recently found this one in their stash. With the marks on it, they can’t use it for what they want so they asked me if there was any way to remove it without damaging the photo. I told them it would have to be taken to a conservator.
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Hello-
If the marks on the photo are for indicating how to crop the image, might this not be considered “original?” Was the photo taken for publicity purposes or for a newspaper? If so, I would not recommend removing it.
Laura Rice
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Thank you everyone! Gawain, yes that was what I expect and the advice I gave to the staff who brought it to my attention. But I wanted to be sure so figured I would throw the question out there. Laura, no it’s not original to the photo. It look almost like an old fashioned, long before Photoshop, way to crop out an image in a photo.
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Hi Diane,
I have to concur with Gawain. If you try to salvage the photos yourself, you may actually end up doing more harm than good.
And do we know the paint is not original to the photos? Like...is that something the creator did to them? If so, that is part of the object and should not be removed, in my opinion.
Good luck!
Laura
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Date: 3/30/17 9:03 AM (GMT-06:00)
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Paint on Black and White Photo
Does anyone know how you safely remove paint from a photograph?
Details: Glossy, black and white, 8 X 10 photo. Parts of the image have been outlined in white paint (not white out). The year of the photo is undetermined.
Diane Hall
Collections Manager
AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame
13515 Yarmouth Dr.
Pickertington, OH
1 (800) AMA-JOIN
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