Symposium on preserving color photographs and digital output media

Henry Wilhelm and others will speak at

    Fading Histories: A One-day Symposium on Preserving Color
    Photographs and Digital Output Media
    Huntington Library
    September 19, 1997

Sponsored by the Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet), with
support from The Huntington Library, the Getty Conservation
Institute, and the Kress Foundation.

The symposium is designed for collection curators, conservators,
collection managers, librarians, archivists, museum personnel and
all who have  responsibility for acquiring, maintaining, exhibiting
and preserving color materials.

Speakers will include Kayley Vernallis, PhD (CalState LA), Paul
Messier (Boston Art Conservation), Amy Meyers (Huntington), Jennifer
Watts (Huntington), Robert Cushman (AMPAS), Jill Sterrett (SFMoMA),
and Henry Wilhelm (Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.).

Registration is $ 50 and includes lunch. To register, please send a
check payable to LAPNet to Katherine E. S. Donahue, History and
Special Collections Division, Louise Darling Biomedical Library,
UCLA, 12-007CHS, Box # 951798,  Los Angeles, CA  90095-1798.
Registration deadline is September 10, 1997.  For additional
information: Mark Roosa 626-405-2197, or roosa<-a t->huntington< . >org.

Program

9:00-9:30     Coffee and Check-In

9:30 - 9:45   Welcome
              David Zeidberg, Avery Director, The Huntington Library
              Mark Roosa, Chief Preservation Officer

9:45-10:15    Some Observations on Seeing Color and Its Meaning in the
              Interpretation of Photographic Images
              Kayley Vernallis, PhD. Cal State L.A.

10:15-11:00   Color Photographs: Classification, Terminology, and
              Identification
              Paul Messier, Boston Art Conservation

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:45   Why We Have Not Collected Color Photographs
              Jennifer Watts, Curator of Photographs, The Huntington
              Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

              Why We Have Collected Color Photographs
              Amy Meyers, Curator of American Art, The Huntington
              Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

11:45-12:15   Access and Delivery Issues for Color Photographic
              Materials
              Robert Cushman, Photograph Curator, Academy of Motion
              Picture Arts and Sciences

12:15-1:30    Lunch
              Optional Tour of the Huntington Cold Storage Facility
              (sign up at registration desk, maximum of 25 persons)

1:30 - 2:00   Monitoring Color Materials for Exhibition
              Jill Sterrett, Conservator, San Francisco Museum of
              Modern Art

2:00 - 3:00   Strategies for Controlling the Deterioration of Color
              Materials With An Emphasis on Cold Storage
              Henry Wilhelm, Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.

3:00 - 3:15   Break

3:15 - 4:00   An Overview of Digital Color Print Technology
              Henry Wilhelm

4:00 - 4:15   Question and Answer Session

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