Digital BW, The Print

Other than photography, I have also studied painting and print making 
at the Art Inst., Chicago and I was always worried about the archival 
properites of my works on paper.  I asked a conservator about it and 
he told me frankly that under most situations nothing on paper would 
last more than one hundred years unless it gets into a museum level 
environment.  But to make me feel better he said that if my work 
hadn't made it into museums within a hundred years it really didn't 
matter because no one would care about it anyway:)  At some level, 
you just have to do the best you can and then stop worrying about it.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Keith, out of curiosity, can anyone agree on the exact longevity of 
the
> term "Archival" ? Is there so many years a print has to exist with 
no
> changes at all to be called that?  How about museums?  When they
> announce that they use "Archival Mattes" How long must they last 
before
> they show signs of yellowing?
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