A guide to the preventive conservation of photograph collections / Bertrand Lavédrine ; with the collaboration of Jean-Paul Gandolfo and Sibylle Monod ; translated from the French by Sharon Grevet.

Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, [2003], ©2003.

xvi, 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.

Part I. Understanding : The vulnerability of photographs : Image degradation ; Binder degradation ; Base degradation -- Standards : Processing and preserving photographs ; Evaluating the permanence of materials ; Preservation practice standards for collections -- Part II. Enclosures : Contact materials (level I) ; Proximity materials (level II) ; Storage facilities (level III) -- Environment : Relative humidity and temperature ; Air pollution -- Monitoring collections : Setting conservation priorities ; Disaster response -- Part III. Exhibition : Light : Qualifying light ; Quantifying light ; Artificial light -- Mounting and exhibiting : Light recommendations ; Exhibition spaces ; Monitoring devices ; Filtering light ; Mounting for exhibition -- Part IV. Dissemination and access : Analog reformatting : Duplicating photographs ; Micrography -- Digitization : Preserving access to information ; Digital image acquisition ; Storage on magnetic tape ; Storage on optical disks ; Micrography versus digitization -- Part V. Technical and practical information : Processing photographs for permanence : Black-and-white photographs ; Color photographs (chromogenic processes) ; Computer output printing -- Appendixes : 1. Formulary ; 2. Water treatment -- Basic vocabulary.