At the American Institute for Conservation’s 41st Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN) explored how conservators use online resources in a poster titled “The Art Con<server>: How conservation professionals make use of online resources.” The poster was based largely on a survey sent to AIC members in March 2013.
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During this September's Beirut Photo Fair, alongside contemporary photographic works, an exhibition of a selection of artifacts, prints and reproductions from The Fouad Debbas Collection (a MEPPI alumnus) was also offered to visitors. It was an important chance for the Lebanese gallery-goers to connect with their heritage: not only photographic heritage but also architectural heritage, as several pieces depicted Beirut as it was over a century ago, almost unrecognisable in scale from the city it has become.
Thursday 19 September, 7pm, at SALT, Istanbul
Article on MEPPI participant, the National Library of Amman's photo archive
Introduction to the materials and chemicals used in the Daguerreotype process.
Creating a procedure "Doug M" (Digital Daguerreotype), making protective liquid & film Daguerreotype instead of Chloride Golding, coined "Doug device maker" (Exposure Unit) for use in a digital way Daguerreotype.
Daguerreotype, technical and scientific aspects
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MEPPI participant, Mohammad Reza Tahmasbpour recently authored an article entitled 'Photography in Iran: A Chronology' which was published in a special issue of the journal History of Photography, 'The First Hundred Years of Iranian Photography' (Volume 37, Issue 1, 2013)
