{"id":1463,"date":"2016-01-08T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/?page_id=1463"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:31:40","slug":"preventive-conservation-display-of-photographs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/preventive-conservation-display-of-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive Conservation: Display of Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Hermitage Museum, December 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Lavedrine,\u00a0Director, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections (CCRC), Paris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fundamental purpose of a photograph is display.\u00a0 Display also can also pose a fundamental threat to the condition of the photograph.\u00a0 In some cases display can cause severe and irreversible deterioration.\u00a0 Light, air quality, temperature, and relative humidity are significant factors that determine the stability of photographs on display. Guidelines established by the Intentional Standards Organization specify acceptable parameters for these variables.\u00a0 Working within these guidelines requires some basic knowledge of acceptable framing and display strategies as well as an awareness of testing and monitoring practices.\u00a0 Any display of photographs must incorporate protocols to establish condition, before, during and after display.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overview of standards for:\n<ul>\n<li>Humidity (definition) and impact on photographs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#_Toc263043618\">Temperature<\/a> and influence on life expectancy<\/li>\n<li>Pollutants<\/li>\n<li>Light<\/li>\n<li>Photographic Activity Test<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Creation of a microenvironment for display:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluation of materials commonly used for display (paper, board, adhesives, paints)<\/li>\n<li>Furniture frames, storage boxes and other enclosures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lighting:\n<ul>\n<li>Light\n<ul>\n<li>Spectral distribution,<\/li>\n<li>Measuring light<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Light sources and risks\n<ul>\n<li>Natural<\/li>\n<li>Artificial (Halogen, Fluorescent, LEDs)<\/li>\n<li>Filters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Exhibition of photographs\n<ul>\n<li>Light damage<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring light<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Additional Resources<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvironment and Storage.\u201d <em>Safeguarding the documentary heritage &#8211; a guide to standards, recommended practices and reference literature related to the preservation of documents of all kinds.<\/em> UNESCO (2000). <u>http:\/\/webworld.unesco.org\/safeguarding\/en\/all_envi.htm<\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStandards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photherel.net\/surveys\/Electronic\/Standards%2030-09-2005.pdf\">ISO, ANSI, BSI and DIN standards<\/a> relating to the preservation of imaging materials.\u201d Photographic Heritage ELearning\/ Photherel. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knaw.nl\/ecpa\/sepia\/publications.html\"><em>Train the Trainers<\/em><\/a>. ECPA, CD-ROM developed in the framework of the SEPIA project, 2003). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photherel.net\/surveys\/Electronic\/index_html#standard\">http:\/\/www.photherel.net\/surveys\/Electronic\/index_html#standard<\/a> pp. 1-8.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, Sarah, Constance McCabe and Barbara Lemmen, &#8220;Guidelines for Exhibition Light Levels for Photographic Materials,&#8221; <em>Topics in Photographic Preservation 9<\/em>, (American Institute for Conservation, 2001) pp. 127-128.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Hermitage Museum, December 9, 2010 Bertrand Lavedrine,\u00a0Director, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections (CCRC), Paris. Abstract A fundamental purpose of a photograph is display.\u00a0 Display also can also pose a fundamental threat to the condition of the photograph.\u00a0 In some cases display can cause severe and irreversible deterioration.\u00a0 Light, air quality, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/preventive-conservation-display-of-photographs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preventive Conservation: Display of Photographs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1463","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/photo-ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}