A Review of The Digital Print: Identification and Preservation by Martin Juergens, 2009, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA and The Contemporary Photography: Digital Prints Sample Set

摘要

In an earlier paper (Barabe, 2010), the reviewer presented an atlas in which photomicrographs of a wide variety of traditional and digital printing processes were shown, along with brief descriptions of the processes and aids to their identification. That paper also listed a number of resources available for further study, including the exemplars that forensic document examiners (FDEs) will need in order to become competent in printing process identification.Among them, Martin C. Juergens' book, The Digital Print: Identification and Preservation, was of considerable importance in this earlier study. Upon its publication, the book became the definitive authority in the field. A separate well-illustrated flowchart is included with the book. In this review, Juergens'book is more closely re-examined as part of a carefully integrated set of digital print study tools that include the book, its accompanying flowchart, and a collection of digital printing process reference samples produced by Juergens and his colleagues as teaching tools in workshops in photograph conservation. Although the book and the set of reference samples were created separately, they can be considered a carefully integrated study set.