Coatings on photographs : materials, techniques, and conservation / edited by Constance McCabe.

Washington, D.C. : American Institute for Conservation, [2005], ©2005.

ix, 384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

"Published and distributed by the Photographic Materials Group, American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works."

Conservation and analysis -- The conservation treatment of original coatings on photographs: issues and current practice -- Chemistry and analysis of coating materials -- Materials and practice -- The history and conservation of coatings applied to Daguerreotypes -- Coatings on paper negatives -- Coatings on salted paper, albumen and platinum prints -- Coatings on black-and-white glass plates and early film -- Coatings on Autochrome plates -- Coatings on gelatin silver prints: a historical overview -- An overview of coatings for hand-colored black-and-white photographs -- Coatings on Kodachrome and Ektachrome films -- Coatings on Polaroid prints -- Commercial coatings for photographs and North America, 1950 to the present -- Plastic lamination and face counting of contemporary photographs -- Case studies -- A history of Zapon lacquer coating and its use on the Daguerreotypes in the Albertina photograph collection -- The treatment of wax-impregnated paper negatives -- Discussion of a yellow colorant on three paper negatives by Dr. John Murray -- Vernis Cuir and the photographs of Adrien Tournachon -- Coatings on the photographic prints of Gustave Le Gray -- Coatings on photographs by Alfred Stieglitz -- Photography in natural colors: Steichen and the autochrome process -- The Holy Shroud of Turin transparency -- The use of wax to reduce the silver mirroring on a photography by Lewis Hine -- Coatings used on photographs by Ansel Adams -- Contemporary artists' perspectives on coating, lamination, and face mounting.

Includes bibliographic resources and index.