Restoration of photography: the case of “Retrato De Novia” of the Estudio Amer-Ventosa (Madrid, 1962)
Abstract
The photographs could have been altered, in his different stratums, as a consequence of different factors. On one hand, these could be environmental, manufactural, creational and caused by the photographic development, and on the other hand could be related to their own manipulation and history, also those effects related to consequences of storage and exposure.
From the different causes of possible damage, those ones which cause the adhesion of the emulsion to the frame system glass, is, of course, one of the hardest challenges the photograph restorer has to face.
This is the case of the silver gelatin print in black and white, of the famous and already disappeared Amer-Ventosa, whose intervention we are using and could give guidelines on the methodology to use, starting with optic microscopy analysis and considering the acceptable intervention rules for this discipline.
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