An Ambrotype of the Historic Hyde House, circa 1857. Ambrotypes were made with the wet collodion process on glass.

Autumn Leaves, "Mini", and the Hyde House, October 17, 2008.

Aardenburg Imaging & Archives was founded in 2007 by Mark McCormick-Goodhart. It is located in the historic Hyde House in Lee, Massachusetts. AaI&A collaborates with serious amateur and professional print makers, photographers, and artists who work with digital printing processes. We are carefully building an archive of digitally mastered photographs and fine art prints. Our goal is rigorously to document the late 20th and early 21st Century digital printing technologies used to make photographs and fine art prints. Aardenburg's collecting policy emphasizes the materials and processes rather than any specific genre of artists or subject matter.

Aardenburg's mission includes two very important additional activities. AaI&A conducts image permanence research on the modern digital printing technologies represented in our archives. AaI&A also shares and exchanges digital prints with members of our innovative Digital Print Research Program. The Digital Print Research Program places prints from the Aardenburg Archives into the home and office environments of our research participants. With our members' help, AaI&A monitors and evaluates real world print aging behavior.

Aardenburg's three overall goals to Collect, Study, and Share are interdependent. Together, they help us to build a comprehensive knowledge base about modern digital print technologies while at the same time giving members of Aardenburg's Digital Print Research Program the chance to display and enjoy fine examples of the digital print making craft in their own home and office environments.

Aardenburg works closely with contributing artists to produce photographs and fine art prints for the Aardenburg Archives and for our Digital Print Research Program. Color and tonal values are tracked over time along with environmental data (i.e., light, heat, and humidity measurements). Our growing database and our reports on the image permanence of materials in the Aardenburg Collection are available to our membership. Our contributing members receive valuable image permanence information specific to their own materials and processes. By conducting laboratory tests and and by monitoring and scientifically evaluating prints as they age under real world conditions, Aardenburg Imaging & Archives contributes to a deeper appreciation of the art, science, and history of digital photographic print technologies.

Rev: June 15, 2008

AaI&A Policy on Public (Blue) Links versus Membership (Green) Links

AaI_Links_Policy.pdf
Posted: 2008-10-13  Revision: 2008-10-13  (168 Kb)
by Mark H. McCormick-Goodhart, Director, Aardenburg Imaging & Archives

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