Photographic Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pomerantz, Louis
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content: Louis Pomerantz papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 25-36, OV 37, MGP 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940s-1980s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pomeloui, Series 9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Minimal processing did not allow time for full arrangement of the photographic material and re-housing of the slides in this series.  Where possible, Pomerantz's original groupings and labels were preserved and are reflected in the Container Listing. Some slides, including the bulk of the project/client slides, are unsorted, and include glass slides mounted in an unorthodox method devised by Pomerantz. Some, however, were removed to archival housing and existing labels were saved or transcribed where possible. Original groupings for otherwise unidentified slides are represented, where possible, by slide containers and dividers.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Glass plate negatives have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographic material primarily documents conservation treatments and techniques through photographs, slides, negatives, glass slides, and 5 glass plate negatives. Many images show Pomerantz and others engaged in conservation work and artwork at various stages in the conservation process. 

Photographs of artists include Tessa Macintosh, Ulfert Wilke, and a signed photo of Georgia  O'Keeffe. 

Photos of Pomerantz at work include 2 photos of him at the Winterthur Museum working with conservator Joyce Hill Stoner who was instrumental in organizing the Know What You See exhibition. Additional material showing Pomerantz at work can be found throughout the series.

Travel slides document Pomerantz's travels to Israel where subjects include a museum visit, the Dead Sea, Damascus Gate, Independence Park, and Purim.

Slide carousels contain slides used by Pomerantz in lectures and presentations, including presentations on the cleaning of a Robert Motherwell mural at the University of Iowa, and conservation of the George Sugarman sculpture Ramdam.

"Slide notebooks" consist of slides documenting conservation techniques that were removed from unlabeled binders, transferred to archival housing in their original order and numbered sequentially according to their original binder groupings. Loose slides were removed from loose notebook slide pages and rehoused immediately after this group as they appeared to belong together.

Project/client photographic material documents conservation treatment by project/client and is largely unsorted with the original boxes or labels preserved. Also found are large format X-rays and corresponding prints.

Project/client negatives are 8 x 10s of paintings from collections belonging to individuals including Lou Block, Nathan Cummings, Epstein, and Arnold H. Maremont.

Photographs and slides of artwork that do not appear to document specific damage or conservation work  are housed at the end of the series.