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New C2C Care Course! The Preservation of Our Global Photographic Heritage: Here, There and Everywhere starting on September 13, 2022!

  • 1.  New C2C Care Course! The Preservation of Our Global Photographic Heritage: Here, There and Everywhere starting on September 13, 2022!

    Posted 08-02-2022 09:21

    Participants will be introduced to the identification, degradation, and preservation of common photographic print materials, including the salted paper, albumen, silver gelatin, and chromogenic color processes. Ethical and other factors to consider in the preventative care of at-risk print materials will be outlined. We will address early direct positive processes – the daguerreotype, ambrotype and tintype – briefly. We’ll also discuss details pertaining to the manufacture, identification and preservation of gelatin dry plate and film-base negatives, along with basic considerations in the care of photographic albums. We’ll review preservation challenges related to large and diverse photographic collections with attention paid to the importance of proper environments and storage materials, emergency planning, and risk analysis. The value and significance of photography, global initiatives, and the pressing need to secure external funding and support through effective preservation advocacy will be emphasized throughout the webinar. Participants will receive a small selection of historic prints, to be returned at the conclusion of the webinar, for in-depth study. A listing of key publications and online resources will be provided. While each session will start with a webinar presentation, but we will include time for discussions with questions welcomed during or following each session using Zoom meeting.

    Coordinator/Instructors

    This course is coordinated and taught by Debra Hess Norris, Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware (UD), and Director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC). For the past 40 years, Debra Hess Norris has authored 45 book chapters and articles and led 160+ workshops globally centered on the care and preservation of photographic materials, while working in partnership with conservation and allied professionals and community members, to strengthen awareness and relevant collection care practices globally from Benin to Beijing, Boston to Bogota.

    Course assistants are Annabelle Camp, textile, and organic materials conservation, WUDPAC Class of 2022; Ashley Stanford, photograph conservation, WUDPAC Class of 2024; and Morrigan Kelley, a 2022 UD undergraduate in art conservation with an interest in photograph conservation.

    Fees

    Early Bird Fee: $99 (before August 20th)

    Registration Fee: $149*

    *To allow time for mailing of sample packets, registration for this course will close on Friday, September 2nd. Limited to 50 participants for the entire course.

    Register Here



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    Robin Bauer Kilgo (she/her/hers)
    Connecting to Collections Care Coordinator, FAIC
    c2cc@culturalheritage.org
    Contract Registrar/Consultant
    rbkilgo@gmail.com
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