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Pre-Publication Discount Sale ends June 5 for Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation!

The Photographic Materials Group of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works is proud to announce advance discount sales through June 5 of Platinum and Palladium Photographs: Technical History, Connoisseurship, and Preservation. The volume presents the results of a four-year inter-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative led and organized by the National Gallery of Art with contributions by forty-seven leading photograph conservators, scientists, and historian. Twenty-four chapters and fourteen technical highlights provide detailed examinations of the chemical, material, art historical and aesthetic qualities of this important class of rare, beautiful, and technically complex photographs.

This 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 a scientific basis for their preservation. Among the many topics covered, those that specifically address the permanence of platinum and palladium prints are: How platinum/palladium prints are made and their degradation, analytical methods to characterized and identify these processes, the history and use of artist-prepared and manufactured papers and their distinguishing characteristics, identification of platinum/palladium prints compared to photomechanical processes, historic chemical treatments to reduce staining, investigation of possible chelation treatments in use today, proper storage and display, and non-adhesive mounting methods. The book also provides an in depth discussion of nine artists including F. Holland Day, P.H. Emerson, Paul Outerbridge, Thomas Eakins, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Irving Penn and numerous contemporary Platinum Renaissance photographers. A beautiful plate section of masterworks is provided, and several articles feature collaboration by curators and conservators to authenticate artists’ photographs and elucidate their working methods.

“Not only does this volume advance our understanding of the history and character of platinum and palladium prints; it also validates and promotes a method of investigation that brings together professionals from various disciplines, each examining the subject with a unique perspective and area of expertise, informing one another for a richer and more complex understanding of the art and science of photography.” Foreword, Malcolm Daniel, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Learn more at www.conservation-us.org/platinum-palladium-book

Membership in the American Institute for Conservation is not required for purchase.

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This pre-sale offer is possible thanks to the generous support of The Irving Penn Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, all revenues will support the scholarly endeavors of the AIC Photographic Materials Group.

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