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Photograph Conservation
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Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of Photographs, for a closer look at the extraordinary group of tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection featured in the exhibition, The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910, on view through July 20, 2025 at The Met Fifth Avenue.
April 11
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In this lecture, a project team formed by the Time-Based Media Working Group reported their initial findings into an assessment of The Met's time-based media holdings and the Museum's collections management practices, in an effort to design a conservation program for its collection.
February 4, 2021
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Take a tour through the exhibition Photography’s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection with Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met.
March 22, 2020
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After three years traveling throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey returned to France with more than one thousand daguerreotype—unique photographic images on silvered copper plates.
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
May 12, 2019
Thirteen albums rediscovered in The Met collection contain rare images of arms and armor, but first they had to be restored.
Georgia Southworth
November 26, 2018
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow Alexandra Nichols explains why time-based art demands special attention.
Alexandra Nichols
September 11, 2018
Three scholars from across The Met work together to see beneath a Louis C. Tiffany drawing.
Marina Ruiz Molina, Jalena Louise Jampolsky, and Louisa Smieska
August 14, 2017
Nora Kennedy, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in the Department of Photograph Conservation, discusses the wide range of conservation work carried out by her intern this past summer.
Nora Kennedy
March 24, 2015
As a chemist in the Museum's Department of Scientific Research, I work closely with Anna Vila-Espuña, also in the Department of Scientific Research, and Nora Kennedy, in Photograph Conservation, on collaborations with Met curators to increase our understanding of methods and materials used to create paintings, works of art on paper, and photographs.
Silvia A. Centeno
March 2, 2011
Developed in the early years of the twentieth century, Autochromes were the result of the first commercially viable color photographic process. Yet the dyes used to impart the color in Autochromes are so sensitive to light that typical exhibition conditions cause rapid and irreversible fading, which has led to the Metropolitan Museum's policy of not exhibiting these vulnerable photographs.
Luisa Casella
January 20, 2011