CCAHA Instructors
Photograph Conservators:
Mary Schobert, Head of Paper Conservation
Barbara Lemmen, Senior Conservator of Photographs
Rachel Wetzel, Conservator of Photographs
Jessica Keister, Mellon Fellow
Photographic Documentation:
Michelle Dauberman, Manager of Digital Documentation
Jessica Silverman, Paper Conservator and Preservation Consultant
Housing and Packing: Anna Krain, Senior Conservation Assistant
Curriculum
Further develop the participants’ core treatment, preventive, analytical, connoisseurship, decision making and critical thinking skills, through the following activities:
Discussions and presentations
o Reinforce conservation terms, vocabulary, key points, and ideas
o Review topics with individual participants and as a group
o Have participants present their treated project photographs to the photograph conservators and other participants on the last day
o Encourage participants to record their observations and add to their dictionary of terms
Written documentation
o Examination of a project photograph and preparation of a treatment proposal, time estimate, and treatment record
Participants will retain copies of all written documentation
Digital photographic documentation
o Working with our photographer, create before, during and after‐treatment digital documentation for the project photograph
using incident, raking, ultraviolet, and/or specular lighting, as appropriate
o Working with a conservator, create photomicrographs using our stereomicroscope and digital camera
Participants will retain copies of the digital documentation as digital files on CD and inkjet prints
Photograph conservation treatment skills
o Treat of a “project photograph” (19th and early 20th century) employing any or all of the following procedures, using the stereomicroscope, as needed.
Surface cleaning and mold removal
Consolidation
Washing and stain reduction through light bleaching and/or other methods
Mending
Humidification and flattening
Unmounting and mounting
Aesthetic compensation – fills and inpainting
o Participants will retain their project photograph.
o Design and construct simple housing for storage and transport of the project photograph
Housing
Process identification o Examine photographic, photomechanical, and digital prints from CCAHA’s collection with a photograph conservator using the stereomicroscope and a variety of lighting conditions
Evaluation o Record the participants’ progress using “Workshop Evaluation Forms.”
Outside Activities
These will be offered to the participants but not scheduled for them.
PMA show “Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art” (admission $16; free with ICOM card)
Film at the PMA “Hockney the Photographer” (tickets $8) 2:00 pm the 12th
PMA Art After 5 (10th and 17th)
Philly Photo Arts Center – show for 2nd Annual Contemporary Photography Competition
Antique markets to purchase photographs for their study collections
Thursday June 9
Arrive at CCAHA and settle in Select TR Project and Begin Written Doc
Lunch
Complete Written Doc
BT Photo Doc
Friday June 10
Begin TR Project
Consolidation Review
Lunch
Photomicroscopy
TR Project
Weekend Monday Tuesday
Wednesday June 15
Housing TR Project
Lunch
Aesthetic compensation Review
TR Project
Thursday June 16
Housing ‐ continued
TR Project
Lunch
Complete TR Project and Housing
TR Project
Friday June 17
AT Photo Doc
Complete Written Doc
Lunch
Each presents TR Project to the group + Photo Conservators Pack TR Projects Clean up
Weekend June 18 + 19
Sunday –
NA and TS travel to GEH for 19th C. Negative Workshop
and
NL and EG fly home
June 11 + 12
Sunday ‐
PMA – Hockney Movie
June 13
DT Photo Doc
TR Project
Lunch TR Project
TR Project
June 14
Process ID Review
TR Project
Lunch
Review CCAHA in‐ house Projects TR Project