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The Icon Photographic Materials Group is delighted to announce the third photo conservation round table, taking place on Friday 29th November at the Science Museum in London. The event will consist of five-minute presentations and discussion, and aims to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing among conservators, as well as other professionals interested in the care and preservation of photographic materials. Here is the programme for the day:

 

12:45 – 13:20 Reception

13:20 – 13:30 Welcome

 

13:30 – 13:35 Ashleigh Brown, freelance conservator,

The Conservators Ltd.

Solvent chambers to remove dry mount tissue on photographs

 

13:35 – 13:40 Riza Hussaini & Ilaria Camerini, conservators,

University of Manchester Library

Broken… dreams!

 

13:40 – 13:45 Nicholas Burnett ACR, director,

Museum Conservation Services Ltd.

Conserving and examining a rare daguerreotype electrotype pair

 

13:45 –13:50 Ioannis Vasallos, conservator of photographs and paper/archive,

The National Archives UK

The pannotype mystery: historic photographic processes in design registers

 

13:50 – 13:55 Sam Brown, freelance

Developments in mounting techniques for photographs

 

13:55 – 14:00 Nicholas Burnett ACR, director,

Museum Conservation Services Ltd.

Examining a mixed group of mostly collodion on paper negatives

 

14:00 – 14:05 Paula Ogayar Oroz, graduate student,

School of Archival and Records Management, 

Autonomous University of Barcelona

A misplaced collection

 

14:05 – 14:10 Nicola Mayer, assistant curator, photography,

Science Museum Group (National Railway Museum)

The challenges of railway provenance: the big four and beyond

 

14:10 – 14:40 Discussion

14:40 – 15:10 Tea/coffee

 

15:10 – 15:15 Milene Trindade, PhD candidate, 

University of Evora, Portugal, HERCULES laboratory, CHAIA

Photographic votive offerings: preservation and exhibition questions 

of image collections in religious contexts

 

15:15 – 15:20 Nicholas Burnett ACR, director,

Museum Conservation Services Ltd.

Creating the photographically illustrated reports of the juries

 for the great exhibition of 1851

 

15:20 – 15:25 Emma Coburn, collections manager,

Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village

Preservation potential: what, how and when?

 

15:25 – 15:30 Vanessa Torres, conservator,

National Science and Media Museum

Spread the word: feedback on spring school 2019

 

15:30 – 15:35 Jessica Crann ACR, library and archives conservator,

Science Museum

Microfadometer: interpreting results

 

15:35 – 15:40 Jordan Megyery, assistant paper conservator,

Tate

My year as an Icon intern in photograph conservation 

and audience engagement

 

15:40 – 15:45 Christopher Harvey, head of conservation,

College of Arms Library, London

Photograph conservation training at Camberwell: What follows?

 

15:45 – 16:15 Discussion

16:15 – 16:45 Closing and final remarks

Please follow this eventbrite link for more information and to book your tickets.

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