Reading Pete Joseph's "Rant" post raises a number of issues about who
can access photogrphic negatives.
As a landscape photographer/industrial archaeologist I have a large
collection of Photographs and negatives, it's fair to say a very large
percentage made in mining regions around the UK. All these photographs
are soon going to a Museum, with gallery space, but the negatives will
be left to a local authority archive, (the museum has no archival
storage facilities).
What are the typical policies for accessing negatives.
My own experiences are from the 70's and I was just given the glass
plates or lantern slides to make prints from, but I was working closely
with the museum Director.
Ian
|