Photograph Conservation Newsletters
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Past Newsletters
- June 2026, No. 42
Celebrating Nora Kennedy; Freeze Frame: Preserving Film at The Met; Welcoming Zachary Glovier and Brittany Lin; A Dying Art: The Outlook for Cathode Ray Tube Televisions Used in Artwork Exhibitions
- March 2026, No. 41
In the Darkroom with Lizzie Himmel; An Anniversary Celebration; Making the Cyanotype Backdrop; Time-Based Media Stewardship; Jim Campbell's Motion and Rest #2; Interbellum Chromatism
- November 2025, No. 40
Photograph and Time-Based Media Conservation at The Met: A History in Landmarks; The Team Today; Celebrating Our Alumni; Lab Bibliography
- September 2025, No. 39
Advancing the Future of Conservation; Welcoming Rahul Sharma; Interns in Action; Welcoming Haley Kane
- June 2025, No. 38
A Bright Future: Expanding Conservation Expertise at The Met; Ways of Giving: Sue Cassidy Clark; New Landmark Publication on Photograph Conservation; The Interplay of Exhibition and Preservation
- March 2025, No. 37
Paying it Forward; Introducing sasha arden; Closing the Circuit; Reflections on the PMG Winter Meeting
- December 2024, No. 36
Ways of Giving: David Neill & Susan Griffith; Iteration Reports in "Purgatory"; TBM Stewardship Workshop; From Tanks to Tots: A Photographer's Journey
- September 2024, No. 35
A New Chapter for Conservation at The Met; Introducing Tess Hamilton; Welcoming Jenny Hsu; Update: Fold Endurance Adhesives
- July 2024, No. 34
"The Cathode Ray Tube Will Replace Canvas!"; Conservation Apprentice Update; Measuring Color Photographs; Celebrating Felice
- March 2024, No. 33
The Fold Endurance of Adhesives; An Acquisition Process "adjusted to fit"; Photographic Paper Sample Books
- December 2023, No. 32
Imaging for Daguerreotypes; A Farewell to Georgia Southworth; Updates on Digital Storage; Preserving Photo Albums in Beirut; ICOM-CC Triennial Conference; Workshop: NYC Salt
- September 2023, No. 31
Celebrating Colleagues; Ways of Giving: Bank of America; Next Chapter: Kayla Henry-Griffin; A Study Collection Highlight
- June 2023, No. 30
James Van Der Zee Archive News; Welcoming Felice Robles; State-of-the-Art Climate Monitoring; Study Collection Lantern Slides; A "Snapshot" of Staehle’s Eastpoint
- March, 2023, No. 29
Berenice Abbott's New York Album; Welcoming Natasha Kung; Early Photography in India; Conservation Conclave, Mumbai; Presenting Maha Maamoun
- December 2022, No. 28
Preparing Avedon MURALS, Indian Conservation Fellowship, Fine-Tuning the TBM Lab, and A Conservator's Discovery
- September 2022, No. 27
Introductions for our Fellows and Interns, Our New Conservation Apprentice, Landing Page News, and Taking Light Levels
- July 2022, No. 26
Ways of Giving: Jay and Ali Klein; Welcome Michaela Lott; American Institute for Conservation 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting; Fellows Colloquia; Staff Publications
- May 2022, No. 25
Ways of Giving: Mellon Foundation; DEIA Update; Notes from Storage: Travel Frames; Support for Ukraine; Materials Research: Beirut
- December 2021, No. 24
Installing the Photography Galleries; Variable Display Decisions; Researching Printing Techniques; Ways of Giving: Esther and Joe Siegel; Update from the Fellows.
- September 2021, No. 23
Introducing our new Fellows Catherine “Cat” E. Stephens and Rachel Tabet; Ways of Giving: Sherman Fairchild; Installing Surrealism Beyond Borders; Time-Based Media Lab Update; Farewells to Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation Bryanna Knotts, and to Adrienne Arsht Museum Seminar (MuSe) Summer Intern Kayla Henry-Griffin.
- June 2021, No. 22
Introducing Kayla Henry-Griffin; Preparing for The New Woman; PMMA Mini Workshop; Silver Mirroring Research; Hacking for Preservation; ICOM-CC’s 19th Triennial, Beijing.
- March 2021, No. 21
Considerations for Bound Volumes; DEIA Updates; Summer Youth at The Met; Researching the Study Collection; Improving Digital Storage; Disaster Recovery in Beirut.
- December 2020, No. 20
Reflections, 2020, Our Fifth Anniversary, Staff & Fellows, Highlights, Essential Instrumentation, Preventive Care, Exhibition Highlights, Expanding Collections, Conservation Treatment, Time-Based Media Lab, Loans, Outreach & Engagement, and Professional Involvements.
- August 2020, No. 19
Dye Transfer Gift from CVI LAB, A Photography Love Story, Some Thoughts on Dye Transfer, Memorializing Analog Photography, A Commitment to Diversity, Shared Mellon Fellowships, and Digital Preservation & Storage.
- May 2020, No. 18
Conservators Working from Home, Digital Preservation of Artwork, Conservation Documentation, Researching the Study Collection, Technical Notes, Identity Reports, and Professional Involvement.
- March 2020, No. 17
Diana Díaz-Cañas Joins Us, Film Preservation Workshop, Every Disc, Every Bit of Data, Science and Art and Steichen, and Becoming a Conservator.
- December 2019, No. 16
Introducing Jonathan Farbowitz, Gathering in Delhi, Welcoming Aleya Lehmann, A Pristine Daguerreotype Revealed, and A Conservator's Discovery.
- September 2019, No. 15
TBM at The Met, Why Print a Photograph in 2019, Lisa Barro Begins a New Chapter, Welcome Bryanna Knotts, Research Scholar, and Congratulations to our Departing Fellows, Elsa Thyss and Alex Nichols.
- June 2019, No. 14
American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting, Nora Kennedy awarded Honorary Doctorate, Fare ye well, Mollie, Our Fabulous Fellows, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-Funded India Exchange Prospers, Summer Extern Sasha, and Celebrating Us.
- March 2019, No. 13
International Photograph Conservation Meeting in New York, A Hidden Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, Daguerreotypes on Display, and Time-Based Media Documentation Templates Now Available.
- December 2018, No. 12
Time-Based Media at The Met, Collection Insights: Collaboration with Department of Arms and Armor, Modern Technology Meets Nineteenth-Century Practice, and Nora Kennedy in India and China.
- September 2018, No. 11
Time-Based Media Symposium at NYU, Early Cased Images from The Costume Institute Collection, Girault de Prangey Exhibition Preparations, E.J. Bellocq Research Continues, and 2018 ICFP Fellowship Concludes.
- June 2018, No. 10
Welcome Nikhil, And Josephine, African American Portraits, Time-Based Media Collections Assessment, Spring Fellows Colloquia, and ICOM-CC Board Meeting in Paris.
- December 2017, No. 9
Moving with the Times in Osaka, Japan, Time-Based Media Working Group on Metmuseum.org, Process Identification of Works by Adolf de Meyer, Le Prelude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune, and Katie Sanderson in India.
- October 2017, No. 8
Staff Promotions, Lisa Barro Presents New Research at International Symposium, New Fellow in Time-Based Media Conservation, and Nora Kennedy Elected to ICOM-CC Board.
- August 2017, No. 7
Adrienne Lundgren shares insights on F. Holland Day, MEPPI Symposium in Beirut, Pre-Program Conservation Internships, and Christine Frohnert and The Body Politic.
- April 2017, No. 6
Investigating Irving Penn’s Nudes, Artist Panel on Time-Based Media Art, Elsa Thyss Presents at PMG, and Scientific Research Investigates Keiley Image Composition.
- January 2017, No. 5
Off-site Storage Up and Running, MEPPI III Initiative, Time-based Media Lecture Series, Article in Revue de l’Art, and Intern Spotlight: Natasha Kung.
- September 2016, No. 4
Farewell Janka, Welcome Elsa, Erin Fisher, The Future is Not What it Used to Be, and Paul Messier Visits The Met.
- July 2016, No. 3
Happy One Year Anniversary, Final Preparations for diane arbus: in the beginning, Conservator Nancy Reinhold Rejoins the Department, New Publication on 30 Years of Photograph Conservation, and Digital Print Workshop.
- March 2016, No. 2
The Met Breuer Opens with Excitement and a New Brand, Congratulations Debra Hess Norris, Hot off the Press, and MEPPI III Workshop in Beirut, Lebanon.
- December 2015, No. 1
In this Issue: Department of Photograph Conservation Established, Current Members of the Department of Photograph Conservation, Hot off the Press, and Season of Giving.