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Photograph Preservation Initiatives

12201161655?profile=originalOur team is collecting information on photograph preservation projects throughout the world to assist us as we write a monograph titled, Significance, Use, and Conservation of Photograph and Image Collections, to be published in the Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology. In these survey questions, we are broadly defining photograph preservation projects to include photograph conservation and rehousing, emergency response, education and outreach, research, and digital image collection initiatives. We are particularly interested in learning about projects that promote conservation advocacy and community engagement.

Your privacy is important to us. Your data is protected and will not be shared beyond this research group. We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete the survey before March 10. It should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. Your input will be a tremendous help in raising awareness of photographic heritage worldwide.

Link to survey: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82GgIHMVqNpfF5Q

Thank you for your time and expertise!

Debra Hess Norris, University of Delaware
Heather Brown, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Shannon Brogdon-Grantham, Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Marta Garcia Celma, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Amber Kehoe, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Lee Price, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia
Ioannis Vasallos, The National Archives, UK

For questions related to the survey and/or the publication, please contact copicbook@gmail.com.

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12201049055?profile=originalDuring this 3-day workshop participants will learn about the deterioration affiliated with the various photographic processes. Storage, housing and exhibition guidelines will be discussed for negatives, 19th Century photographs and for modern and contemporary processes. During course practicals participants will view damage and deterioration on study collection photographs. The course also covers the main aspects of loan requirements and condition surveying of photographs.

Clara von Waldthausen, instructor of the course, received her Masters in Conservation in 2000. After her studies she researched the autochrome process at the CRCC in Paris under the supervision of Bertrand Lavedrine. Waldthausen has since been in private practice working for most of the major museums in the Netherlands, and teaching workshops and students internationally. Since 2014, she coordinates and teaches the Master in Photograph Conservation at the University of Amsterdam. (http://www.conservation-restoration-training.nl)

Read more here: Preservation of Photograph Collections

Date:        29, 30 & 31 March 2017

Costs:      695,00 euro excl. VAT 

Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The course will be taught in English. The costs include lunch & coffee breaks, and the course reader. To register for this course please send an email to: fotorestauratie@icloud.com  

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I want to share with all network members this important initiative from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (apologies for cross-posting):"The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut wishes to generate a greater understanding of the inescapable value of photographs and analogue archives for the future of studies in historic, human and social sciences. Only integration between the analogue format and the digital format can guarantee the correct conservation of the photographic heritage for future studies and at the same time the implementation of digital instruments. Representatives of both the photographic collections and academic research are therefore called on to support and respect the following recommendations."Everyone who has not yet read and signed this declaration is encouraged to do so by visiting:http://www.khi.fi.it/en/photothek/initiativen/index.html
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