Paul Messier LLC - Photograph Conservation

Episode 052 Paul Messier — Art and Obsolescence Podcast Show Notes This week’s guest, Paul Messier, is an excellent example of the potential for creativity that lies within the unique brand of entrepreneurship that is running an independent conservation practice. Although working as an independent art conservator comes with many unique challenges (Paul...

Our Photographic Materials Group (PMG) is seeking abstracts for their next Winter Meeting, which will take place February 23-24, 2023, at the Harry Ransom Center. Abstracts are due by Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 5 pm ET.

Abstracts may be submitted dealing with the preservation and conservation of photographic materials from conservators, students, and professionals in allied fields. A limited number of speaker stipends will also be offered and more information about stipends will be available during the abstract acceptance process.

Presentations formats will include the following:

- 20-minute presentations of completed research/work, major research/work in progress
- 10-minute presentations of completed research/work, research/work in progress
- Poster presentations of completed research/work, research/work in progress

Learn more and submit abstracts here: https://bit.ly/3oR37fm

"Eerie photographs recovered from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America are now being published for the first time."

Our studio worked with several of the daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the SS Central America shipwreck (1857). Check out this recent article in the Guardian for more information on some of the treasures that were discovered on the ocean floor!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/27/doomed-ship-of-golds-ghostly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

Pictured here is conservator Karina Beeman working on a mounted Edward Weston gelatin silver print. She is using a microscope to look at the treatment in progress as closely as possible.

Photograph by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

Pictured here is conservator Karina Beeman working on a mounted Edward Weston gelatin silver print. She is using a microscope to look at the treatment in progress as closely as possible. Photograph by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. @cntrforcreativephoto #photographconservation #artconservation #paperconservation #photoconservation #artconservators #gelatinsilverprint #edwardweston #weston #paulmessierllc

Happy Holidays! We wish you a safe and healthy new year! - Diane, Karina and Lauren.

❄❄Please email [email protected] to schedule any deliveries between December 27th-January 3rd.❄❄

Photos:
1. Kindergarten holiday concert from Karina's family archive (Blazhenovy), Leningrad, USSR, late 1950s. They are performing a Russian fairytale where a turnip is pulled out of the ground (Repka). Her mother is one of the children, on far left, dressed as the turnip!

2. "Three Christmas Graces," from Lauren’s family archive (McDonough), Boston, early 1950s. Lauren's grandmother is pictured on the right with two friends in front of a Christmas tree.

Meet Emily Finney, our Fall 2021 graduate student intern! Emily is currently in her final semester in Preservation Studies at Boston University. Today is her last day in the studio, three months have flown by very fast!

Emily’s internship with us provided her hands-on experience with early photographic processes, an interest she wanted to explore more of. While here in the studio, Emily has worked on different storage techniques for specific types of fragile photographic objects, such as ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and tintypes. She also created a housing sample set using her own collection of photographs. Swipe through to see some examples!

Videos of Emily‘s work can be seen on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCWnVFFKOj/?utm_medium=copy_link