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Preserving Photographs in a Digital World
Important Update:Due to current economic conditions, we have received a low number of registrants this year. As a result, this year’s seminar will be postponed until August 14-19, 2010. We look forward to your participation next year as we hope to continue the tradition of providing the seminar. Hope to see you then.
Plan for next year’s seminar, to be held August 14-19, 2010
For fee, lodging, and contact information, see General Information.
IPI and George Eastman House offer a yearly seminar on the preservation of photographic materials and on digitizing photographic collections.
With the increased use of digital imaging technology, today's collection managers need up-to-date information on how to care for their collections and make them accessible for research. This program combines lectures and workshops in traditional preservation techniques with the theory and practice of digital imaging. The two aspects of the seminar are complementary. Concerned collection managers cannot afford to be uninformed in either area.
The Program
A week-long program of lectures and workshops on traditional photo collection preservation techniques will expand your expertise on what materials are typically found in photo collections, how they deteriorate, how to store and protect them, and how preservation fits in with other collection activities.
Throughout the week, you'll also learn about the basics of digital imaging and how various image-capture, storage, display, and output strategies compare. In addition, presentations will explain the design and application of image database systems, always keeping in context the balance that must be struck between traditional and digital preservation and access.
The week also offers two optional, but highly recommended, evening sessions that focus on special aspects of preservation.
Here's what you'll learn:
- How to identify the processes used to make 19th- and 20th-century images
- How to develop a preservation plan for a photo collection
- To recognize various forms of deterioration in negatives, prints, and transparencies
- How to choose appropriate enclosures and housings
- To understand the role of digital imaging in collection management
- How to store and display photo collections
- To understand the basics of digital imaging for archival applications
- The important quality-control issues related to digital imaging
- How to evaluate digital image quality and choose vendors and equipment
- How to plan a digital project that meets your needs
You are also encouraged to share specific problems you've encountered with your own photograph collections in discussions with instructors and other participants.
Lectures will cover the following topics:
- The history and technology of photographic materials
- Color processes: traditional and digital
- Deterioration and how to control it
- Introduction to digital imaging
- Preservation planning for photographic collections
- Glass-plate and film-negative preservation
- Practical realities of a digital imaging project
- Organization of photographic collections
- Applications of digital imaging in collection management
- Scanning photographs
- Organization of digital collections: database and indexing issues
You will participate in workshops on:
- Negative deterioration, housing, and storage
- Digitization in practice
- Process identification — b&w, color, and digital hard copy
Special Features
Hands-on lab sessions on identification of various 19th- and 20th-century photo processes
Using selected examples and a structured technique based on visual and microscopic examination, you'll learn to distinguish an albumen print from a platinotype, a Kodachrome from an Autochrome, and an inkjet print from a traditional photographic print.
A "Digital Round Table" of experts from industry and cultural institutions
An opportunity to have your specific questions answered with the latest information on products, standards, and services.
Special Highlight!
Enjoy an evening lecture by Grant Romer dealing with a provocative but lighthearted and interesting aspect of photographic history.
Who Should Attend?
Curators, archivists, librarians, conservators, and others responsible for photographic collections owned by libraries, galleries, historical societies, and private and governmental archives will benefit from this program. Because this program is an introduction—in layman’s language—to photographic preservation technology, digital imaging, and archival practice, you do not need extensive experience or knowledge.
This unique seminar is designed to keep you well informed about changes in the fields of photographic conservation and digital imaging. Our materials are continually updated. Every year, we review topics and listen to the feedback we get from professionals like you to make sure we are providing the information you need.
General Information
PROGRAM FEE: $1,495
Fee includes the cost of all instructional materials.
Location and Scheduling
This program is held at historic George Eastman House, located in one of the most scenic neighborhoods of Rochester, New York. The museum facilities and beautiful grounds will be available to you for the whole week of the seminar. Program lectures are given in the museum's Curtis Theater, and workshops take place
Lodging
Lodging is not included in the cost of the seminar. Participants must make their own arrangements. The host hotel for the seminar is the Strathallan (soon to be the Hyatt Summerfield Suites). This hotel is within walking distance of the museum. Room rates range between $119.00 and $134.00 per night. The Strathallan also provides transportation to and from the airport. Their phone number is 1-800-678-7284. There is also the Dartmouth House Bed and Breakfast, located about five blocks from the museum. Their room rate is $120 per night, and their number is 585-271-7872. When calling to make a reservation, please mention "Eastman House Preservation Seminar" to get these special rates.
You may register for the seminar online (coming soon), by phone or email, or by filling out and faxing or mailing the printable registration form.
Phone: 585-271-3361 x 323
Fax: 585-271-3970
E-mail: Seminar@geh.org
Mail: Stacey VanDenburgh, Conservation Dept.
George Eastman House
900 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-2219
For more information, contact Stacey VanDenburgh
at George Eastman House.
Photos on this page by 2004 seminar participant Roberto Ortiz
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