DVD - Seminar on preservation and management of photographic collections

Postprints
Seminar on Preservation and Management of Photographic Collections Photographic Archive, Benaki Museum
Athens, Greece 2010

A bilingual CD-ROM including the seminar papers along with a DVD of the workshops follows the historical and technological evolution of photography, from the early printing processes (1839) till the recent production of digital prints. In addition, we learn about the factors that influence the preservation of photographic materials according to their structure and the conditions of storage and display.

The most leading figures from the field of photographic conservation, preservation management, and digital imaging attempt a theoretical, historical and practical approach to the subject.

The 2 hour DVD presents the recreation of major photographic processes such as albumen prints, palladium prints, cyanotypes, photogravure etc. as well as an identification key of the numerous photographic techniques through the 19th and 20th century.

The intensive five-day seminar has been organized by the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum in 2005, in order to enable the participants to identify various photographic techniques, to understand the sources of deterioration of photographic collections and to select proper preservation materials for the safe handling of images during the inventory, cataloguing and digitization of a collection.

Lecturers

Grant B. Romer
Director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph
Conservation, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

James M. Reilly
Director of Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of
Technology

Anne Cartier-Bresson
Director of the Atelier de Restauration and de Conservation des Photographies de la Ville
de Paris, Maison Europeenne de la
Photographie, Paris.

Dr. Mike Ware
Scientific consultant to the National Museum of Photography,
Film and Television, Bradford. Honorary Fellow in Chemistry,
University of Manchester.

Doug Munson
Director of the Chicago Albumen Works, Inc.

Luis Nadeau
Photography Historian specialized in the re-creation of
photographic techniques and director of the Atelier Luis Nadeau,
Canada.

Mogens S. Koch
Professor-Conservator in Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Denmark.

Henry Wilhelm
Director of the Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.

Martin C. Juergens
Photograph Conservator, Germany

Kostis Antoniadis
Professor of Photography at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Department of Photography

Alkis Xanthakis
ESFIAP, Photography Historian

Maro Vandorou
Visual and Conceptual Artist, Portland, Oregon.

Fani Konstantinou
Consultant to the Photographic Archive, Benaki Museum

From Conservation DistList
Date: 28 Jun 2010
From: Maria Matta
Subject: Postprints from seminar on preservation and management of photographic collections.

See also the original announcement of this conference see Conservation DistList Instance: 18:51 Tuesday, April 26, 2005.

Benaki Museum
Athens
(www.benaki.gr)