The 2009 Recipient of the HP Image Permanence Award given by IIC in co-operation with IS&T (the Society for Imaging Science and Technology) is Steven Puglia.

First Awarded in 2006, the HP Image Permanence Award recognises advances in colourant and print media materials that significantly increase permanence; advances in predictive science that increase the validity of permanence predictions or provide insight into optimal storage and usage conditions; and/or educational efforts that raise awareness of the effect of storage and usage conditions on permanence.

The award committee consists of representatives from both IS&T and IIC.

The form of the Award is a clock with engraved plaque and a cash prize, both provided by the Hewlett-Packard Company.

Steven Puglia has been involved with preservation from early in his career. He wrote a paper A Short Guide to Nitrate Negatives: History, Care, and Duplication in 1986 while he was working at the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), USA. His work continued at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington DC, USA, where he was dealing with everything from microfilming to standards for negative duplication and storage of photographs. Outside of NARA he chaired the ISO Task Group Three, responsible for test methods and specifications for traditional colour photographic materials and newer non-silver halide printing materials (digital prints). His duties have now moved on to dealing more with digital files rather than physical objects, but his past contributions are worthy of recognition.

Douglas Nishimura
Image Permanence Institute
Rochester Institute of Technology

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