I've seen a lot of colour prints from the fifties and sixties that
have faded to a pale yellow and magenta ghost -this problem has been
with u for a good while. If you are thinking of photography as a
record of daily life rather than a formal, professional record, then
it has always been ephemeral.
AndrewF
On 04/02/2006, at 2:56 AM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> Good thinking. I fear a tremendous gap in photographic history
> at some point. Our current reliance upon an intangible medium
> could subject future generations to a a period of time where
> billions of photographs were taken but few preserved/printed for
> future generations.
>
> I don't care what our current wisdom says--I have little trust
> in the "archival" nature of Epson pigment prints. Five years
> from now we'll be bragging up the archival properties of a new
> printer and lamenting the inferiority of our current state of
> the art.
>
> At least archivally processed silver-geletin on fiber prints
> have a known lifespan.
>
> AG
>
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