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"High-Security, Sub-Zero Cold Storage For the PERMANENT Preservation of the Corbis-Bettman Archive Photography Collection"
by Henry Wilhelm with Ann C. Hartman, Kenneth Johnston, Els Rijper, and Thomas Benjamin
View 6-Page Article
From IS&T Archiving Conference April 2004
Posted May 17, 2004
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Article & Images
From IS&T's Archiving Conference
"The Design and Operation of a Passive Humidty-Controlled Cold Storage Vault Using Conventional Freezer Technology and Moisture-Sealed Cabinets"
by Mark McCormick-Goodhart and Henry Wilhelm
View 7-Page Article
From IS&T Archiving Conference April 2004
Posted May 17, 2004
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From IS&T Archiving Conference
View Companion Poster
From IS&T Archiving
Conference
Posted May 17, 2004
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Poster PDF
From IS&T Archiving Conference
High-Res Version 8.7 Mb
Low-Res Version 1.1 Mb
Poster Size: 44x96 Inches
NEW Guidebook from Canadian Council of Archives on "Cold Storage of Photographs at the City of Vancouver Archives" by Sue Bigelow, Conservator
 Download 36-Page PDF
for Article
Posted May 17, 2004
"Bettman 100: Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Otto Bettman"
Includes Interview with Henry Wilhelm About the Corbis Sub-Zero Film Preservation Facility
View 4-Page Article
Posted May 17, 2004
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Posted May 17, 2004
Photography Preservation Article from
The Washington Post Magazine
Why has Bill Gates
stashed millions of the greatest images of the 20th century under a mountain
in Pennsylvania?
"Buried Treasure"
by Mary Battiata
May 18, 2003
High Resolution PDF
with photographs
(16 MB file size)
Low Resolution PDF
with photographs
(3.1 MB file size)
Compact text-only PDF
(72 K file size)
More information on new Corbis sub-zero photograhy preservation facility
Progress
Towards a NEW Test Method Based on CIELAB Colorimetry for Evaluating
the Image Stability of Photographs
By Mark McCormick-Goodhart and Henry Wilhelm
View
43-Page
Presentation Slides & Text
From IS&T Conference
February 8, 2004
Full-Screen Page View
Posted March 28, 2004
Minor Revision May 2, 2004
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43-Page PDF for
Presentation Slides & Text
From IS&T Conference
February 8,
2004
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8-Page PDF for
Companion Article
From IS&T Conference
Proceedings Book
February 2004
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NEW
Display Permanence Ratings for Current Products in
the 4x6-inch Printer Category. Includes Inkjet
Prints, Traditional Silver-Halide Color Prints,
and Dye-Sub Prints.
Display
Permanence Table
Full-Screen Page View
Posted March 8, 2004
Display
Permanence Table
Download 1-Page PDF for 4x6-Inch Data
Article
from PCWorld on
The Poor Permanence of
Many Third-Party Inks!
Download
PDF for Article
"Cheap
Ink Probed"
September 2003
How Long Will
Your Pictures Last?
Which Products Last
the Longest?
Wilhelm
Imaging Research, Inc. conducts accelerated light exposure
and dark
aging tests to determine the comparative life expectancy of inkjet
and other digitally printed photographs, as well as that of
traditional
black-and-white and color photographs.
As high-quality photographic printing has been steadily moving
toward inkjet printing — with an ever-increasing number of
small and large-format prints being made with pigmented and dye-based
inks on a wide variety of inkjet media — so too has
the emphasis at Wilhelm Imaging Research shifted to testing
inkjet materials.
The intrinsic light fading and dark storage stability of
these myriad imaging materials is the primary focus of this
company and its research. Our aim is to provide the answer
to the question: "How long will this image last before noticeable fading and/or
staining occur, and under what conditions?" It is the purpose
of this website to publish the results of these evaluations on
a product-by-product basis. These "apples-to-apples" comparisons,
available nowhere else, help make it possible to select the
best products when image permanence is an important consideration.
Also available on this site is wide-ranging information on
the permanence and care of photographs in general. For example,
Wilhelm Imaging Research conducts research on cost-effective
methods to preserve a wide variety of photographic materials — including
motion picture films — as well as books, manuscripts,
newspapers, and other visual records and artifacts for many
thousands of years into the future through the use of sub-zero
cold storage (minus 4 degrees F/minus 20 degrees C).
Wilhelm Imaging Research
will be regularly posting new display permanence ratings
(DPR)
and other
stability
data for many more currently available printers, inks, and
papers.
The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures
by
Henry Wilhelm
with
contributing author
Carol Brower
Originally Published
in 1993
High-Resolution
Adobe Acrobat PDF files for the entire 758-page book or for any or all of the 20 individual chapters may be downloaded for FREE!
Posted July 29, 2003
Digital Photography Article from
U.S. News &
World Report
Print Display Permanence data provided by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. Article also features digital photography pioneer Stephen Johnson.
"Are Photos Finished?"
March 24, 2003
by David LaGesse
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Noted
Photographers
and Printmakers at Work
(Click on Images to Enlarge)
Mac
Holbert of Nash
Editions, Manhattan Beach, California, holding
a B&W photograph of actress Jane Fonda and her father,
Henry Fonda, taken in 1968 by Pat York and printed with
the new Epson
Stylus Pro 4000 (17x22-inch sheet-fed, 17-inch roll-fed,
7-ink printer selling for $1,795).
Greg
Gorman, Los Angeles, California with a portrait of actress
Jodie Foster printed with his Epson 9600.
Joshua
Greene, Archives
of Milton H. Greene, Florence, Oregon with a portrait of Marilyn
Monroe printed with an HP 5000PS.
Mac
Holbert and Graham Nash of the pioneering fine art printmaker Nash
Editions, Manhattan Beach, California, with
a photograph by Stephen Wilkes printed with an Epson 9600.
Joseph
Holmes, Berkeley, California, printing one of his landscape
photographs with an Epson 9600.
David
Adamson of Adamson
Editions printing with a 63-inch Mimaki JV4-160 in his Washington,
D.C. studio. Adamson also uses Iris, ixia, Roland, and Epson printers.
Salon
Iris in Vienna, Austria, one of Europe's first digital
fine art printmakers. Sam Sinclair and Stefan Fiedler, founder,
printing
with an Epson 9600. Other printers including an Iris 3047 are also
used. Fiedler was also the organizer of the highly successful ArtBits fine
art digital printmaking exhibition and workshop.
Stephen
Johnson of Pacifica, California, making one of his large panoramic
prints with an Epson 10000 in his fully-equipped studio and gallery.
Johnson currently uses a Better
Light digital scanning back for ultra-high resolution photographs.
NEW Article
from Great Output Magazine
on accelerated test methods and the permanence of inkjet photographs.
Interview article
by Ray Work
New Interview Article from
Shutterbug Magazine
"The Archival Quality of Digital Print Media: A Conversation With Henry Wilhelm, The 'Guru' of Image Permanence"
by Chris Maher and Larry Berman (with Editorial comment by
George Schaub)
November 2003
High Resolution PDF
(904 K file size)
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