Consumer Photo Restoration Services | Fine & Historical Photography Restoration Services

The Archives is dedicated to preserving, restoring and presenting timeless works of photography. Our company started out digitizing original negatives and transparencies from the works of Milton H. Greene in an attempt to save and restore them. Over the last nine years, Joshua Greene, Milton's eldest son, has committed himself to salvaging great photographic images from his fathers and other archival collections before they are lost to time.

Black & white and color film is composed of layers of organic matter floating on a piece of acetate. As such, they are subject to the deterioration caused by air, moisture, and sunlight. The early Ektachrome color films – used from the 1940s up through the mid-1960s – were extremely unstable, an element that adds extra problems to the already complex restoration process. This is not the case with black & white film, which has a life span of between 75 and 100 years.

Today’s technology offers us the ability to perform very high-resolution scans of original film negatives and transparencies. Using dual processing Apple computers, we enhance these large files, hand-finishing each image pixel by pixel to recapture, rebuild, and ultimately breathe life back into photographs that would otherwise be beyond restoration. The work is tedious, requiring a minimum of 20 hours of work per image. Once achieved, however, these high-resolution files give one the ability to reproduce the resulting refined and digitally mastered photographs in any form or medium.

The Archives has been heavily involved in the beta-testing of Hewlett Packard's newest Designjet printers and UV inks. The resulting images are projected to have a life span of over 200 years. Carrying this successful collaboration another step, Hewlett Packard and The Archives have partnered to produce the first exhibition of the newly restored works of Milton H. Greene. The exhibit is entitled, "Portraits of an Era," and unveils 28 images of various well-known personalities plus 33 images of Marilyn Monroe.

"Portraits of an Era" launched its US tour in July 2001. Watch this site for updated listings of exhibition venues and schedules.

If you are interested in our restoration services please call us at 1 (541) 997-4970 for more information or send email to restore @ archivesphotorestoration.com .

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Consumer Photo Restoration Services | Fine & Historical Photography Restoration Services