The following message was posted on the photoconservation list and may be of
interest to people with architectural plans and drawings in their holdings.
Note the book is available in September 2009 from Oak Knoll Press.. Link to
Oak Knoll Web site is at bottom of the message.
Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
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Available September 2009
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOREPRODUCTIONS: A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CARE
Kissel, Eléonore and Erin Vigneau.
Introduction by Lois Olcott Price
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press 2009
- 8 x 10 inches
- stiff paper wrappers.
- 140 pages
- ISBN 9781584562160 / Order Nr. 94208
- Price: $ 49.95
Second edition with corrections, new prefaces, a redesigned flow chart, and
updates to the original text based on new information that has come to light
over the past decade.
This manual is designed for professional conservators, librarians, private
collectors, and researchers who want practical, contemporary insight into
preserving architectural plans and drawings. The authors provide detailed
methods for identifying architectural photoreproductions based on visual
examination. The manual discusses twelve distinct processes and offers
additional information on several other methods commonly used in North
American architectural practice from 1860 to approximately 1960.
One of the manual's important features is the flowchart, an outline using a
series of questions leading the reader to a preliminary identification. Each
process is described in a separate chapter with numerous color illustrations
of general and magnified views of select photoreproductions. Each chapter
includes sections on how to identify a print, trade names and synonyms, the
history and use of the printing process, how a print was manufactured, and
degradation and storage considerations. Each of the 54 illustrations,
critical for identifying a document's state of condition and extent of
damage, have been carefully photographed and checked to ensure correct color
representation. Appendices give information on storage and handling,
exhibition and current methods of reproduction of architectural prints and
drawings.
Eléonore Kissel is a Paper Conservator and a Consultant in Preventative
Conservation. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Science from
Concordia University, Montreal, and a Master's Degree in Conservation from
the Sorbonne Paris I University. Eléonore is an active member of the
conservation community in France, teaching courses at the Sorbonne Paris I
University and the Institut National du Patrimoine. She has published in
Museum International (UNESCO), International Preservation News (IFLA), The
Book and Paper Group, and Musées et collections publiques de France.
Erin Vigneau currently works as a Lecturer in Art and Design at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville as well as other universities in
metropolitan St Louis. She has worked as a book and archives conservator at
The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, Princeton
University Library and The Conservation Center for Art and Historical
Artifacts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in
Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Erin
has published in The Book and Paper Group Annual (The American Institute for
Conservation) and The Guild of Book Workers Newsletter.
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Luis Nadeau
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