Conference on science and photographic conservation

International Conference:
Thirty Years of Science on the Conservation of Photographs
Logrono, Spain
20-23 June 2011

The science of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage on
photographic support is a professional field that has been developed
in the last thirty years. Despite being so new, it has assumed the
responsibility to contribute, from numerous institutions and working
groups, to the permanence of such heritage contained in photographic
records. And so it has strengthened the criteria for identifying
materials; it has established diagnostic techniques, intervention
protocols and a methodology for the custody, access and cultural
exploitation, all of this within the practice of the code of ethics
of this profession.

Thirty years of research and scientific work have produced a huge
amount of information, much of which is in full force while other
has become obsolete or is out of the parameters of our code of
ethics. However, its coexistence with the information contained in
the Internet causes certain effects that need to be corrected.

Numerous professionals believe that the time has arrived to review
our field, summarize its history and point out the direction which
marks the immediate future of our activity.

We therefore propose the holding a conference whose proceedings
allow to review how the different areas of our profession have
developed and point out the operating lines of work for each of
them.

Angel Ma Fuentes
Conference Director.

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List of speakers and topics:

    Jim Reilly
    Director of the Image Permanence Institute, Rochester, New York

        Twenty-five years in the research of image permanence.
        Results of a quarter of a century of scientific work. New
        goals

    Paul Messier
    Conservation of Photographs and Works on Paper.

        Photographic papers in the 20th Century. Methodology for
        their authentication, understanding and dating

    Debra Hess Norris
    Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation in the Art
    Conservation Department at the University of Delaware

        Global Needs in the Preservation of Photographic Materials

    Henry Wilhelm
    Researcher and founder of WIR Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.
    which conducts research on the stability and preservation of
    traditional and digital color photographs and motion pictures.

        From traditional to digital color, the problem of
        permanence. State of the question.

    Nora Kennedy
    Sherman Fairchild Conservator of Photographs at the Metropolitan
    Museum of Art

        The role of photograph conservation in museums

    Peter Mustardo
    Head of the Preservation Section at the New York City Municipal
    Archives from 1985 to 1990, and the Regional Preservation
    Coordinator for the National Archives in Washington. He
    established his private practice in New York City in 1982 prior
    to co-founding The Better Image

        Evolution and methodology of restoration in private practice

    Grant Romer
    Former Conservator and Director of Advanced Residency Program in
    Photograph Conservation, at the International Museum of
    Photography and Film at the George Eastman House

        And now, what? Past and future of museums in the strategy of
        conservation

    Anne Cartier-Bresson
    Director of the Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation des
    Photographies de la Ville de Paris

        The model of the ARCP. Integral management of photographic
        collections in the city of Paris.

    Bertrand Lavedrine
    Director of the CRCC, Centre de recherche sur la conservation
    des collections

        Scientific research as the foundation for the preservation
        of cultural heritage

    Fernando Osorio
    Director of Conservation of the Photographic Collections of
    Fundacion Televisa AC

        The role of private institutions in photographic
        collections

    Joan Boadas i Raset
    Director del Centre de Recerca i Difusio de la Imagen (CRDI) y
        representante del Consejo Internacional de Archivos (CIA) en
        el Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association
        (CCAA).

        The evolution of collection treatment in Spanish archives: a
        path to specialization. Luis Pavao. Director of Luis Pavao
        Ltd., Lisbon, for the conservation-restoration of
        photographic Heritage and the professional training for the
        field. Evolution of working criteria in Portugal.

    Jesus Robledano
    Professor of library science and documentation at Carlos III
    University

        25 years of digital conversion. State of the question.

    Angel Ma Fuentes
    Conservator -restorer in private practice

        Photography or photographic information? The impact of
        exhibition on original photographic prints. Evolution of the
        exhibition criteria and alternative techniques of cultural
        dissemination

    Clara Ma Prieto
    Conservator-restorer of graphic and photographic documents

        The Net: A gold mine or a minefield?


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