Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these events in the history of photographic permanence in chronological order.
- ISO 18916, the Photographic Activity Test, is published, 2007
- Warnings about residual hypo and fading become routine in the manuals, late nineteenth century
- The Image Permanence Institute is founded at Rochester, 1985
- Herschel identifies hyposulphite of soda as a solvent for silver salts, 1819
- Herschel passes the fixer to Talbot for photogenic drawings, 1839
Hints
- The chemistry precedes any photograph worth fixing by twenty years.
- A dedicated research institute comes long before the international test standard.
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- Herschel identifies hyposulphite of soda as a solvent for silver salts, 1819
- Herschel passes the fixer to Talbot for photogenic drawings, 1839
- Warnings about residual hypo and fading become routine in the manuals, late nineteenth century
- The Image Permanence Institute is founded at Rochester, 1985
- ISO 18916, the Photographic Activity Test, is published, 2007
Why
The gap between the third and fourth items is a century in which the problem was known and unmeasured. Permanence became a science rather than a set of warnings only when someone built the laboratory to test it, and the standards followed from the laboratory rather than the other way round.
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