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REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR FADING HISTORIES: 
A One-day Symposium on Preserving Color Photographs and Digital Output Media  


The Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet), with support from The Huntington Library, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Kress Foundation, will sponsor a one-day symposium on the preservation of color photographs and digital output media to be held at the Huntington Library on September 19, 1997. Due to enthusiastic response to this program, the registration deadline has been extended to September 17th. 

The symposium is designed for collection curators, conservators, collection managers, librarians, archivists, museum personnel and all who have  responsibility for acquiring, maintaining, exhibiting and preserving color materials. 

Speakers will include Kayley Vernallis, PhD (CalState LA), Paul Messier (Boston Art Conservation), Amy Meyers (Huntington), Jennifer Watts (Huntington), Robert Cushman (AMPAS), Jill Sterrett (SFMoMA), and Henry Wilhelm (Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.).

Registration is $ 50 and includes lunch. To register, please send a check payable to LAPNet to Katherine E. S. Donahue, History and Special Collections Division, Louise Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA, 12-007CHS, Box # 951798,  Los Angeles, CA  90095-1798. Registration deadline is September 10, 1997.  For additional information: Mark Roosa (626) 405-2197, or [log in to unmask]

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FADING HISTORIES: 
A One-day Symposium on Preserving Color Photographs and Digital Output Media

Program 

9:00-9:30	
Coffee and Check-In

9:30 - 9:45     	
Welcome
David Zeidberg, Avery Director, The Huntington Library
Mark Roosa, Chief Preservation Officer 

9:45-10:15	
Some Observations on Seeing Color and Its Meaning in the Interpretation of Photographic Images - Kayley Vernallis, PhD. Cal State L.A. 

10:15-11:00	
Color Photographs: Classification, Terminology, and Identification - Paul Messier, Boston Art Conservation

11:00 - 11:15   	
Coffee Break

11:15-11:45	
Why We Have Not Collected Color Photographs - Jennifer Watts, Curator of Photographs, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Why We Have Collected Color Photographs - Amy Meyers, Curator of American Art, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

11:45-12:15
Access and Delivery Issues for Color Photographic Materials - Robert Cushman, Photograph Curator, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

12:15-1:30
Lunch
Optional Tour of the Huntington Cold Storage Facility (sign up at registration desk, maximum of 25 persons)

1:30 - 2:00
Monitoring Color Materials for Exhibition - Jill Sterrett, Conservator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2:00 - 3:00
Strategies for Controlling the Deterioration of Color Materials With An Emphasis on Cold Storage - Henry Wilhelm, Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc.

3:00 - 3:15
Break

3:15 - 4:00
An Overview of Digital Color Print Technology - Henry Wilhelm

4:00 - 4:15 
Question and Answer Session