Postprints from seminar on preservation and management of photographic collections

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

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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


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