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Photo Storage Facility
updated: Jun 14, 2011, 10:45 AM
I am looking for a local facility to store approximately 20,000 valuable photographic negatives and prints, which I inherited from a famous photographer. Fireproof is a must!
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COMMENT 182904
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2011-06-14 10:53 AM |
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I'd give Santa Barbara File Storage a call
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JOHN WILEY
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2011-06-14 12:44 PM |
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I wonder if the SB Museum of Art might be interested in a storage arrangement. Seems likely they'd have photo storage experts and facilities.
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COMMENT 182942P
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2011-06-14 01:41 PM |
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It's costly for museums to store images and also due to space issues and cataloging. There is a liability involved, too. I've worked with curators at the Huntington, MOCA, and LACMA. Institutions are reluctant to take anything unless it fits into their agenda and they have the budget. The also de-acquisition works that they already own on a regular basis to clear space and aquire new works. It's almost like trading baseball cards. :-) A very good commercial facility is LA Fine Art Storage at 2290 Centinela Ave in Los Angeles (on the Santa Monica border.) It's really the only place around that's qualified to maintain museum quality art work. Institutions use them and yet their annual storage fees are reasonable for everyone else, too.
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COMMENT 182965P
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2011-06-14 03:18 PM |
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Any chance you will eventually donate them? Museums usually have programs to keep the work accessible to you if it is gifted to them. A great way to insure top level storage (lots of factors go into storing photographs as opposed to other paper).
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COMMENT 183000
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2011-06-14 04:49 PM |
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I know someone that does photo archiving. Scans the photos and puts them on discs. Post if you are interested.
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COMMENT 183010P
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2011-06-14 05:15 PM |
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OP here. Thank you for all the suggestions, and I will be following up on them. I'm not planning to donate the collection for now, and am scanning them myself in small batches. But I really need a safe, fire-proof facility for the bulk of the collection. I almost lost them in the last two fires.
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COMMENT 183165
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2011-06-15 09:39 AM |
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Sima property mgt. has a basement in downtown
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COMMENT 183317
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2011-06-15 02:59 PM |
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We do scanning/archiving and have a location for storage but it's not climate controlled etc. thinairconcepts dot com
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