available at the Photography Center of Atlanta, 1769 Cheshire Bridge Road......
We restore and repair Old Photographs. All sizes. All types. Our goal is to replicate your print to the finest quality - we strive for Museum standards - and Yes, our restorations are on display in Museums! Scroll past the "artcopy" section to learn more about our techniques.
NEW - We are now have availability of Fine Art Copywork! We can provide Giclee' reproductions!
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and other 2 dimensional artwork are copied onto 35mm Slides, Digital Files, or 4by5 Transparencies. Professional copying setup eliminates glare and reflections, providing with vibrant art unobscured by the flaws inherent in non professional copywork. For the artist wishing to produce the highest quality in Giclee' art reproduction we have partnered with Atlanta Graphic Arts, we will make the 4 by 5 transparency and the giclee' print will be produced to the highest standards. No matter how large you decide to make the edition you can make the prints as they are sold, allowing you to make an edition of reproductions without the upfront costs.
As the photo scene evolves in Atlanta, long time friends and vendors retire and close. We welcome the copywork and restoration customers of Moakler Photo upon their closing, and wish Trish and Mike well!
The photo restoration uses skilled techniques and artists to stabilize and repair your treasured family heirlooms to make them enjoyable now and into the future. Clients have included the archives of Coca-Cola Bottlers Association, Several History Museums, and discerning individuals. Our business dates back into the 40's and moved to the current location in the early 1960's. Previously known as Harden House of Photography, our archives not only includes thousands of photographs but also awards and commendations from over the last 50 years!
Your Restoration Project
Our restoration concept is simple. To retain the look of an aged photo (placing it in its proper historical context). To stabilize the image in its current condition through creating a new repaired version both printed and archived on CD. Our goal is to avoid
over manipulation - we want the image to look like an older picture that has kept very well, rather than some kind of fake and crude over painted picture (we are after family heirlooms and historical documentation, not Folk Art!) This is where the discerning eye and sensitivities of professionally trained fine artists comes into play! We do repair image damage, cracks, stains, discoloration, fading and other deteriorations.
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Photography Center of Atlanta offers digital repairs that are printed by a variety of methods. One method which we participated in its pioneering is making a large negative from the computer image file and contact printing the image in the darkroom. The Century Print is the result for which the owner, Bill Gillespie, owns the TradeMark. The Century Print is a toned print on conventional archival grade photographic paper, of the types which are in museums worldwide. These prints have the best proven record of longevity and have a guaranteed life expectancy of 100 years, with
150 - 200 years expected if stored in favorable conditions. If you have the honor of preserving pictures of your ancestors from the 1860's 70's or 80's, then you know how enriching it will be to future generations for these images to still be around in 100 years!
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New processes include high quality "gliclee" prints, which can give an elegant watercolor quality to your projects (we have created some beautiful facimiles of old Civil War era documents for framing using this process). Fuji Crystal Archive is a color printing material which offers very high stability (50-75 years) at a very competitive price. This process offers great value and as long as the images are archived on CD and retained can be an acceptable method of preserving and sharing your families historical photos.
Look at your color photographs from the late fifties through the sixties. This is the most AT RISK era as the color prints made in that time frame were of very low stability and are well past their life expectancies. Now is the time to stablilize and color correct these images. An evaluation of which images are the most important - The family at Christmas in 1963, Vacation at Marineland, The Wedding Portrait - should be made and restoration considered. The least damage the better - making exact facsimiles of images that have not faded is a very affordable project! Why wait until major repairs are needed!
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We can make prints and enlargements of any size black and white negative up to 8 by 10 inches! Black and White prints are available in both good (Standard, 50-75 years) and better (The Century Print, 100 -150 years) grades.
The Century Print is a TradeMark of Bill Gillespie, exclusively available at Photography Center of Atlanta, and is registered with the State of Georgia, Secretary of State. Unauthorized use in the United States is illegal and subject to legal action.
