Synopses & Reviews
This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. A removable chart provides a ready reference for identifying specific materials.
Anyone involved in identifying and preserving digital prints--from conservators, curators, archivists, and registrars to photographers, artists, and printing studios--will welcome this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind volume.
Synopsis
This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. A removable chart provides a ready reference for identifying specific materials.
Anyone involved in identifying and preserving digital prints--from conservators, curators, archivists, and registrars to photographers, artists, and printing studios--will welcome this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind volume.
About the Author
Martin C. J�rgens, a conservator of photographs in private practice in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in the conservation of historic and contemporary photographic materials and digital prints.