Durova wrote:
Restoration is inherently interpretive. Consider
something simple: a
newspaper cartoon in black and white. There are many possible whites; which
do you select?
The reasonable assumption is that the background white is an unprinted
area; the white is a function of the paper rather than of the
printing.. Otherwise we need to distinguish between a printing on fresh
paper and an old printing on paper that has since yellowed with age.
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