Save Grandma’s prints!
some are probably old, from the 1800s … I can help restore them.
I’ve worked with glass plates for 40 years. I’ve also remastered cabinet cards, silver gelatin tintype, early 1900s post cards, through modern digital capture. I’ve worked on pastel like kodak prints going back to the early days.
I’ve been retouching since 1988, learned on an Adam’s desk, using graphite on a negative. That was when I worked for Eileen McClure, probably the greatest portrait photographer Providence RI had.
She grew up in rural Maine and was raised by a single mother on a farm. In the 1930s she went to correspondence school to be a photographer, it was the NY School of Photography and they are still around today. She did all the modules and had to live in NYC to complete the retouching module, that required additional instruction. If you’ve ever tried it ( or tried to retouch digitally which is very similar ) hybrid learning might not be the best option.
She was active in the 30s- the 1990s. I was developing and printing all of her work for 10 months between 1988 and 1989. It was a great immersion of 1930s photographic sensibilities, something I already had. I brought my experience into the digital realm.
Contact me if interested in my services.
