{"id":10917,"date":"2014-06-28T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2014-06-28T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T01:04:58","slug":"42nd-annual-meeting-photographic-materials-may-31-retouch-practices-revealed-in-the-thomas-walther-collection-project-by-lee-ann-daffner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/06\/28\/42nd-annual-meeting-photographic-materials-may-31-retouch-practices-revealed-in-the-thomas-walther-collection-project-by-lee-ann-daffner\/","title":{"rendered":"42nd Annual Meeting &#8211; Photographic Materials, May 31, &quot;Retouch Practices Revealed in the Thomas Walther Collection Project&quot; by Lee Ann Daffner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #222222\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\">MoMA<\/a>&#8216;s Thomas Walther collection contains over 340 photographs Walther collected from 1909 to 1949 in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Paris. Many of these photographs will be on <a href=\"http:\/\/press.moma.org\/2014\/04\/looksee-thomas-walther\/\">exhibition<\/a> at MoMA between\u00a0November 08, 2014\u2013April 26, 2015.\u00a0The departments of Photography and Conservation at MoMA have been collaborating on researching this collection of Modernist photography which will culminate with a publication that will be available in early 2015 and a symposium on\u00a0December 12, 2014. The results of this collaborative research will also be available on the OBJECT:PHOTO website which will include a timeline of Walther&#8217;s life and identification of photographs by location. The research Lee Ann presented at AIC focuses on artists&#8217; working methods, specifically retouching techniques. Retouching can be done to either a print or a negative to enhance effects or mask imperfections. Retouching includes reductive techniques (such as scraping) versus additive techniques (painting, drawing, etc.), and an artist&#8217;s\u00a0discretion\u00a0to use any of these techniques can inform the viewer about the photographer&#8217;s intentions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSummary by Greta Glaser, Owner of Photographs Conservation of DC\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoMA&#8216;s Thomas Walther collection contains over 340 photographs Walther collected from 1909 to 1949 in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Paris. Many of these photographs will be on exhibition at MoMA between\u00a0November 08, 2014\u2013April 26, 2015.\u00a0The departments of Photography and Conservation at MoMA have been collaborating on researching this collection of Modernist photography which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/06\/28\/42nd-annual-meeting-photographic-materials-may-31-retouch-practices-revealed-in-the-thomas-walther-collection-project-by-lee-ann-daffner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;42nd Annual Meeting &#8211; Photographic Materials, May 31, &quot;Retouch Practices Revealed in the Thomas Walther Collection Project&quot; by Lee Ann Daffner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":10236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,16],"tags":[73,667,869,1013],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-photographic-materials","category-specialty-sessions","tag-aics-42nd-annual-meeting","tag-modernist-photography","tag-retouching","tag-thomas-walther-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}