Re: Salvaging the Unsalvagable

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You could always loan your negs to a museum and have them protect the lot. I loaned 300 rolls of 1976 rolls to the SI for 30 years, and other than changing the file numbers and the sleeves plus making it next to impossible to get my negs back, it was good storage.



On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:30 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

On 2014-01-29 09:35, Randy Little wrote:
Why would you not store your work in a proper storage facility?

Cost?  I mean, your photos may constitute your entire life, but what
does "proper" storage at this level cost?  And how does one go about
finding such a facility?  Many photographers simply don't *have* an
extra grand a month (total wild-ass guess at cost).

And remember Jacques Lowe!  (Kennedy-era negatives destroyed when WTC
collapsed on top of bank vault he had stored them in.)

Perhaps more interestingly, what constitutes an "adequate" level of
archival photo storage?  Protection from fire and flooding, and some
degree of temperature and humidity control, and some level of physical
security, I assume are the basics you intend?  (Protection from fire is
often done via sprinkler systems, so the combination of protection from
fire and flooding seems...difficult to find.)

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