Architectural photoreproductions : a manual for identification and care / Eléonore Kissel & Erin Vigneau.

  • Kissel, Eléonore.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

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Description

"A manual for identifying and preserving architectural photoreproductions. Provides a flowchart for identification through visual examination. Includes sections on terminology, history and use of the printing process, manufacture, degradation, exhibition, and storage. Five appendices, a bibliography, and an index"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; Bronx, N.Y. : New York Botanical Garden, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xiv, 125 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition

2nd ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 117-118) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Lois Olcott Price -- Co-publisher's preface to the first edition -- Introduction -- Glossary -- How to use the flow chart -- Flowchart for the identification of architectural photoreproductions of drawings and documents -- Photoreproductions. Aniline prints ; Blueprints ; Diazotypes ; Ferrogallic prints ; Photostat prints ; Positive blueprints and pellet prints ; Sepia diazo prints ; Vandyke prints ; Wash-off prints -- Photomechanical reproductions. Electrostatic prints ; Gel-lithographs ; Hectographs -- Appendix 1: Chart: Classification of architectural photoreproductions -- Appendix 2: Additional reproductions found in architectural archives -- Appendix 3: Notes on the storage of architectural drawings and prints -- Appendix 4: Notes on the exhibition and handling of architectural drawings and prints -- Appendix 5: Current methods of reproducing architectural plans, 1996 / by Kelsey Osborn.

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ISBN

  • 9781584562160
  • 1584562161
  • 1884718620
  • 9781884718625