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

• Published in: Heritage Science
• Main Authors: Elena Basso, Federica Pozzi, Jessica Keister, Elizabeth Cronin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021
• Subjects: Expeditionary photography; Photographs; Arctic expeditions; Late 19th and early 20th centuries; Silver‐gelatin paper; Silver halides; art; info; Arctic; Fors; Franz Josef Land; Harmsworth
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00506-3; https://doaj.org/article/2adf6a0725544949b9436760b43ed31f

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...