PMCC Image Wish list

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 IMAGE WISH LIST FOR PMCC-WIKI (last updated August 2014) 
The list provides ideas of what could illustrate the PMG PMCC-WIKI, yet is not intended to limit ideas for illustrative images. Existing images are italicized. Please consider adding to this resource, but remember to add your own photographs, and not any with copyright issues.
 Examination and Documentation
AIC’s photograph documentation target 
Diagram and images of setup for normal, raking, specular, and UV-vis imaging 
Non-destructive Testing and Instrumental Analysis 
Images of machines discussed in text.
Generic close-up images of handheld monitoring (densitometry, XRF’s, and such?) being used with photographs (folks in white lab coats sort of shot, either focused on the activity without faces, or over shoulder shot sort of thing for anonymity)? 
Environmental Standards and Guidelines for Storage 
Generic better storage within a room 
Cold storage/perhaps with someone in an arctic-looking coat? 
Mark McCormick-Goodhart’s freezer package illustration 
 
Preservation Housing Materials and Formats 
Housing examples for various types of photographic materials 
Diagrams of various enclosures 
Storage solutions 
Examples of variety of good storage examples
Matted cyanotype 
Cased daguerreotypes
Types of attachments (v-hinge, polyester corners, paper corners, folded paper corner and folded paper edge hinges)
Exhibition Guidelines for Photographic Materials 
Image of a person taking light measurement of a photograph on display 
Emergency Recovery Techniques 
Damages from emergency and disaster situations (dye runs, loss of image, stuck to glass, etc.)
Stacked air-drying system 
Something cockled from extreme drying 
Water damage triage diagram 
Negatives being hung on a line to dry 
Photographs on a screen air-drying 
Mold and Foxing Remediation 
Mold damaged photographs
Suction table
Mold damaged silver gelatin print
Digital Prints 
Damage specific to digital print types (and identified as such) 
Cross-sections/SEM’s/Diagrams of structure of different processes 
Cased Photographs 
Daguerreotype damages 
Tintype damages 
Deteriorated cover glass 
Broken case 
Preserver corrosion 
Velvet/cloth damages 
Drying marks
Cracked collodion layer in Ambrotype
Preservation of Glass in Photographic Materials 
Damage to glass plate negatives, lantern slides, etc.
Internal deterioration (weeping glass, cracked emulsion, etc.)
Image of repair 
Images of storage/housing solutions for unbroken items 
Images of storage/housing solutions for broken items 
 
Preservation of Plastics in Photographic Materials 
Various deterioration of negatives 
Multi-Media, Collage, and Composite Constructions 
Damages common to multiple structures/constructions 
Starn Twins?
David Hockney collage? 
Collage, 1910
Robert Frank, 1989 
Karin Sander 
Surface Cleaning 
Examples of before and afters (extreme, easy to photograph examples)?
Silver Mirroring 
Examples/specular or raking light as necessary of different kinds of photographic materials 
Diagram of documentation setup for capturing silver mirroring (specular would be most useful)
Pressure-Sensitive tape and attachment removal
Dessicated and oozing tape examples (and identified tape type if possible) on various types of photographic materials –typical damage 
Mending, Repair, and Filling
Examples before and afters 
Consolidation and Flattening of cracks 
Two before and after cracks/breaks in paper borders (raking light)
 
Backing, Lining, and Mounting 
Examples of before and afters? 
Detail of edge, losses, folds, tears, curling 
Raking light showing distortions 
Curled in a cylinder tube 
Japanese paper and starch lining 
Dacron lining 
Montages of process of lining with paper 
Montages of process of lining with Dacron 
Two pictures of tensioning – screen and under glass
Unmounting 
Examples of before and afters? 
Someone doing work (closeup of item, hands, tools, etc.?) 
Stereo prints detaching from their mounts
Humidification, Drying, and Flattening
Examples of before and afters? 
Someone doing work (closeup of item, hands, tools, etc.)
Image and/or diagram of pressing stacks and other techniques discussed 
Inpainting
Faded image with original embellishment/period retouch? 
Any before or afters of retouching? 
Connoisseurship, History, Fakes or Forgeries 
Images of often duplicated and famous fakes? 
 History of Mounts 
Examples of structures and notations of photographers who used them most?