Preliminary photographs and improved positives: discovering the New York Public Library’s Arctic Exploration album

• Published in: Heritage Science
• Main Authors: Basso, Elena, Pozzi, Federica, Keister, Jessica, Cronin, Elizabeth
• Other Authors: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Archeology; Conservation; Arctic; Fors; Franz Josef Land; Harmsworth
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00506-3; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40494-021-00506-3.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-021-00506-3/fulltext.html

Abstract In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, original photographs were sent to publishers so that they could be reproduced in print. The photographs often needed to be reworked with overpainting and masking, and such modifications were especially necessary for low-contrast photographs to be r...