The State Hermitage Museum, January 29-31, 2013
Instructor: Anne Cartier-Bresson, Conservatrice générale du Patrimoine, Directrice, Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation des Photographies de la Ville de Paris
December 29
10:30 am – 1pm
Introduction and presentation of the workshop
Presentation of the participants
History of conservation-preservation in France and current situation of the discipline
Presentation of the ARCP
The ARCP’s technical branches: preventive preservation
- conservation
- reproduction
- documentation
3 pm – 5 pm
Terminology’s issues for photographic conservation
The Photography Technical Vocabulary: discussion around the acquisition questionnaires made by the ARCP
Identification the photographic processes in a conservation workshop
December 30
10:30 am – 1pm
Visit of a photographic collection, Russian History and Culture Department (curator Natalia Avetyan): Menshikovsky Palace.
3 pm – 5 pm
Programming and prioritizing the interventions
December 31
10:20 am – 1pm
Case study:
- preventive conservation
- conservation
- documentation at the ARCP
- reproduction at the ARCP
- preparing the exhibition of patrimonial photographs: “Eloge du Négatif”
3 pm – 5 pm
Case study of preservation and final discussion
Hermitage’s collection
Documentation file.
February 1
Trip to new facility Staraya Derevnya
(только на английском и французском языках)