Send in all your old photos and unexposed film in original canisters, and negatives. This should be an interesting exhibt and I can’t wait until it opens.
More information here:
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/photocon/photocon_wanted.html
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Project Overview
As chemical (classical) photography is increasingly replaced with digital photographic technology, there is a danger that this shift will trigger a decrease in scientific research and knowledge regarding chemical photography. This could result in the loss of crucial information about past artistic, commercial, and experimental photographic processes and technologies.
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In response to these concerns, the GCI and the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) in Rochester, New York, organized a meeting of experts in 2000 to discuss identification of the most important research issues of conservation of photographs and photographic material. The consensus among participants was that there was a need for the development of an advanced methodology to identify photographs and photographic materials as a prerequisite for further development of treatment and preventive treatment of photographic material.
Following the experts meeting in Rochester, the GCI conducted a feasibility studyto define the methods, structure, and goals of the project. With the successful completion of the feasibility study the GCI, the IPI, the Centre de recherches sur la conservation des documents graphiques (CRCDG), Paris and the Department of Chemistry at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) launched a large scale collaborative research
Since the start of the project a number of other institutions and individual collaborators have joined different segments of the project ranging from the development of analytical methodology to application of project results in solving important problems of art conservation and art historical research related to photographs and photographic collections.
The project team partners are working both independently and collaboratively on several areas of research, and meet regularly to exchange ideas and results.
