ICON Photographic Materials Group

ICON Photographic Materials Group
One day Open Meeting and AGM

Large Lecture Room
Institute of Conservation Offices, 3rd Floor
Downstream Building
1 London Bridge
London SE1 9BG
21 July 2006

Cost of meeting including lunch UKP26.00 Members, UKP32.00 Non
Members. You are advised to register as soon as possible to secure a
place at the meeting.

List of Speakers and Posters: The breadth of papers and posters
offered encompass the 'birth of photography' right up to the latest
Digital Debate and it will be a very worth while day, and as ever
there will be a very good lunch and of course our customary Quiz
with a small prize.

    The Father of Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot
        The CPC Archive

    Conservation and Photography: 21st Century Challenge
        Chris Woods, Head of Conservation and Collection Care,
        Bodleian Library

    My Road to Damascus: The Witt and Conway Photographic Libraries
    and Negative Collections
        Barbara Thompson, The Witt Librarian at the Courtauld
        Institute of Art

    An investigation into the digitisation of historical photograph
    collections
        Veronica Davis Perkins, Curator and Researcher

    A photograph of Alice and the great albumen print debate!
        Ian L. Moor, The Centre for Photographic Conservation

    Famous throughout the world; James Valentine (1815-1879) of
    Dundee
        Pamela Cranston, St Andrews University Library

    "The Albumen Layer: A Black and White Issue? Analysis by
    Three-Letter Acronyms: SEM and XPS and an "ESP" (Educated
    Scientific Proposal)
        Dr. Simon Bloxam, Royal College of Art

    AGM: Results of the Election and installation of the New Icon
    PhMG Committee

Poster Presentations:

    The Union Case
        Nicholas Burnet, Museum Conservation Services and
        Angela Moor, CPC Archive

    The Pencil of Nature
        CPC Archive

    "Pixels and Preservation"
        Rowena Jameson, Paper Conservator, National Library  of
        Australia

    A Study of the Salted Paper Print Process and the Imagery of
    William Henry Fox Talbot
        Anita Bools, The National Trust

    The PhMG Quiz

To Register for the meeting, (make cheques payable to Institute of
Conservation)

    Angela Moor
    Programme Secretary:
    c/o 233 Stanstead Road
    London SE 23 1HU
    +44 208 690 3678
    Fax: +44 208 314 1940
    iamoor [at] cpc-moor__com

You can register and/or find further information on the Groups Web
site: <URL:http://www.icon.org.uk/>


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