As you may know, I am leaving the glamorous world of New York magazine publishing for the dust-covered world of photo archiving. I actually want to be really good at this (yeah, I am just so goddam fresh-faced and perky)—can anyone recommend books or web sites that can teach me about . . . well, old photos? The papers, how to preserve and maintain them, and the newest technologies for scanning them online? They’ll train me at work, of course, but I want to learn, learn, learn, till I create a rice of atomic supermen zat vill rule de vorld!
Here’s a tip: Turn the AC waaay up. Here’s an interesting site that talks about my old competitor’s subterranean photo storage facility. Sadly, my own experience is lacking. I used to roam around the Hulton Archive site peering into box after box of old photos, but I never learned what preservation measures they had in place.