2017 Photography Workshop Program
Tuesday, April 25th
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106
2017 Photography Workshop Program
9:00-9:30am Registration
9:30-9:40am Opening remarks
9:40-12:00pm What is it? Overview of Photographic Processes
Speaker: Nora Kennedy, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge, Photograph Conservation Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Top 4 photographic processes: Albumen prints, gelatin silver prints, dye coupler prints, and inkjet prints
- General characteristics, common deterioration issues, nomenclature
Storage and Display
Speaker: Peter Mustardo, Director/Co-Founder, The Better Image
- Display guidelines (Temp/RH/Light), exposure/rotation period, light levels, air quality
- Temp/RH of storage rooms, while in transit
- Cold storage (Nora Kennedy)
12:00-1:30pm Buffet lunch
1:30-2:20pm Storage and Display continued
Speaker: Peter Mustardo, Director/Co-Founder, The Better Image
- Storage materials, interleaving materials. Importance of P.A.T.
- Storage enclosures: window mats, folders, sleeves, boxes
- Limits of conservation treatment interventions
2:20-3:20pm Copyright/Open Access
Speaker: John ffrench, Director of Visual Resources, Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright, Identifying and finding rights holders
- Determining rights status: Orphan works, Fair use doctrine, Non-exclusive license agreements,
- Underlying rights: works depicted, Open Access and 3rd party agreements.
3:20-3:40pm Stretch break
3:40-4:50pm Installation and Transport
Speaker: Jed Bark, Bark Frameworks
- Framing photographs: Those practices and materials that--
Put photographs at risk
Protect photographs from environmental insult
Speaker: Nick Marshall, Manager of Exhibitions and Programs, George Eastman Museum
- The good, the bad, the ugly: Packing and installation oddities and niceties
4:50pm Closing remarks
Speaker: ARCS Committee member
