Seminar on photographic preservation

Preservation and Management of Photographic Collections
Athens-Greece, Benaki Museum
Pireaos Street Annex
Nov 3-7, 2005

The Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum is organising an
intensive five-day seminar on the preservation and management of
photographic collections, to be held in October 2005 at the Piraios
Street Annex of the Benaki Museum (138 Piraios Street, Athens). The
objective of the seminar is 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 digitisation of a collection. The seminar
is intended for archivists, curators, collectors, conservators and
photographers who care for, handle or study photographic
collections. The speakers include leading figures from the field of
photographic conservation, preservation management, and digital
imaging.

Program Summary

    History, Technology and Identification of 19th century
    Photographic Materials

    Preservation Planning for Photographic Collections
        James M. Reilly
        Director of Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute
        of Technology

    Principal Causes of Deterioration and Preservation Materials

    Daguerreotypes, History and Conservation
        Grant Romer
        Director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph
        Conservation, George Eastman House,Rochester, NY

    Preservation and Management at the M.E.P.

    Exhibition Policy for Photographic Materials
        Anne Cartier-Bresson
        Director of the Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation
        des Photographies de la Ville de Paris, Maison Europeene de
        la Photographie, Paris

    Iron-based Processes I: History and Chemistry

    Iron-based Processes II: Identification and Conservation

    Mechanisms of Image Deterioration in Early Silver Photographs
        Dr. Mike Ware
        Scientific consultant to the National Museum of Photography,
        Film and Television, Bradford, Honorary Fellow in Chemistry,
        University of Manchester

    Photographic Pigment Processes

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

    The Conservation of Historical Photographic Collections in
    Denmark

    The Role of Digital Technology as a Preservation Strategy for
    Photographic Collections
        Prof. Mogens Koch
        Professor-Conservator in Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
        Denmark

    History, Conservation and Duplication of Negatives

    "Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access", The
    SEPIA Project
        Hans de Herder
        Head of the Conservation Department of the Netherlands
        Fotomuseum, Rotterdam and founder of SEPIA (Safeguarding
        European Photographic Images for Access

    Identification and Conservation of Digital Prints
        Martin Jurgens
        Photograph Conservator, Germany

    The Digitization and Documentation Project at the Thessaloniki
    Museum of Photography
        Prof. Kostis Antoniadis
        Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

    Photographic Processes in Greece
        Prof. Alkis Xanthakis
        ESFIAP, Photography Historian, Head of the AKTO School
        Photography Department

    Photographic Collections in Greece
        Fani Constantinou
        Head of the Photographic Archive, Benaki Museum

The workshops include:

    Identification of 19th and 20th century photographic prints
        J. Reilly

    Study of principal causes of deterioration
        G. Romer

    Re-creation of historic processes
        L. Nadeau, M. Ware

Posters of final projects by students, Department of Conservation of
Antiquities and Works of Art, Technological Educational Institute of
Athens.

The seminar will be held in English with simultaneous translations
into Greek.

Regular and student registration fees include admission to the
entire seminar, preprints, coffees, lunches and a seminar pack with
reading materials.

    Regular registration: 550 Euro
    Student registration: 300 Euro

Attendance to the workshops is strictly limited. However,
applications will be accepted for participants who will only follow
the lectures (400 Euro and 200 Euro for the students).

A detailed program and a registration form can be downloaded from
<URL:http://www.benaki.gr/>

Registration forms should be mailed or Fax: ed before 15 August 2005.

For more information you can contact:

    Maria Matta, Seminar Coordinator
    Photographic Archive
    15 Philikis Etaireias Square
    Athens 106 73, Greece
    +30-210-72 11 033
    Fax: +30-210-72 28 465
    matta<-a t->benaki< . >gr


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