C2CC Caring for Photographs Webinar 2: Technological Development of Photography Part 1
Channel: AIC & FAIC
Date: 2015-09-02

Recorded: Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Caring for Photographs was intended to strengthen general photograph preventive conservation knowledge and preservation capacity. The course began with an introduction to the technical history of photography, image formation and deterioration, and degradation mechanisms and causes, to prepare librarians, archivists, and collection care specialists with the basic knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to safeguard their collections.

These sessions will focus on supplying a basic knowledge of the technological developments of photography in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries with special focus on albumen, silver gelatin, and chromogenic, print materials, and glass plate and film base negatives.

http://www.connectingtocollections.org/archivephotograph/