Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]a quote from: http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/lightimpressions/show.icl?show=fatq.ht m&orderidentifier=ID93811368548470593668307F Adhesives can be archival only if they are removable. Many of our adhesives (linen tape, Seal Archival Mount) have this feature. Many adhesives are acid-free and/or consturcted with acid-free materials. Instead of adhesives in direct contact with art work, we suggest using corners to secure your work. This means its also not a hassle to remove your work from the page. Light Impressions guarantees all of its products to be archival unless otherwised mentioned. It doesn't actually say that dry mounting is not archival. was your statement that dry mounting wasn't archival based upon this report? Some of the people that I admire in this business, Howard Bond, John Sexton and Bruce Barnbaum all use (at least w/in the last couple of years) permanent adhesive i.e. Seal colormount. I don't have their research documentation, but I tend to believe what they say based upon direct conversations. could this be recent information based on Light Impressions continuing research into archiving. I also look at photos that have been mounted over the last 100 years. many of which are in perfect condition. This means that their proceedures are as archival as I want to be. Rob Mueller Studies In Black and White www.studiesinblackandwhite.com mailto:rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:53 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom Equipment-Drymount press "Mueller, Rob" wrote: > > do you have a source for you dissertation on dry mounting and archival > practices. > > Rob Mueller ><Snip> http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/lightimpressions/index.icl I did run into Dr. Galen here in Portland Oregon yesterday on the sidewalk who started the "Camerawork" Gallery here with Minor White in the sixties in which I have had two one man shows in 20 years. I asked him how much stuff that goes through his gallery is or is not dry mounted and he says he didn't notice but uses one himself for his own work. He is in his 70's and shoots Konica Infrared film with his Hasselblad. So the dry mount press is not completely dead in the Gallery world. It certainly has uses in display photography at least. Mark Rabiner