According to Clare Voon, writing about the “Beauty of Moldy Photos” on the Hyperallergic website on March 2, 2016, Luce Lebart, Director of Collections at the National Library of France, has published a book titled “Mold is Beautiful” (Poursuite Editions, 2015) containing images of forgotten photographic glass plates which had been in a flood decades ago and developed all types of mold on their surfaces over the ensuing years. The images are strikingly beautiful. So beautiful that one can forget that mold is also very dangerous for photographic materials.
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AIC Blog Archives: Conservators Converse
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