 
2007 PMG
Winter Meeting, Rochester, NY
The Winter
Meeting was held February 22-24, 2007 at the George Eastman
House. The PMG met jointly with our equivalent group in the
International Council of Museums – Conservation Committee,
the Working Group Photographic Materials (ICOM-CC WGPM). Attendance
was high at 160 total participants. Highlights of the busy meeting
included:
• A special daylong session on the "Care
and Conservation of Photographic Negatives and Film," organized
and coordinated by the PMG Program Chair Laura Downey Staneff
• A special session on “Composite Photographs”
organized by the ICOM-CC WGPM Coordinators Clara von Waldthausen
and Angeletta Leggio
• A panel presentation on "Cold Storage Projects:
Past, Present and Future" with Andrew Robb, Lee Ann Daffner,
Clara von Waldthausen, and Sue Bigelow
• An open house given by the Advanced Residency Program
in Photographs Conservation at the George Eastman House (ARP)
• Tours of several facilities at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, including the Image Permanence Institute (IPI)
and the Munsell Color Laboratory
• A special award to Peter Krause for his contributions
to the PMG and the preservation of photographs
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success of the meeting was due to the efforts of numerous individuals
and groups, including:
• Stacey Vandenburgh, Manager of the ARP and the Local Arrangements
Committee
• An excellent roster of speakers assembled by Laura Downey
Staneff, Clara von Waldthausen, and Angeletta Leggio
• Jim M. Reilly and Grant Romer, Co-Directors of the ARP
• The Fellows and staff of the ARP
• Peter Mustardo of The Better Image, Doug Munson of the
Chicago Albumen Works, Mike Specht of Spectra Services, and Mark
and France Scully Osterman, whose generous donations helped significantly
to defray the costs of the conference
• 2005 – 2007 PMG Officers: Marc Harnly, Chair, Dana
Hemmenway, Secretary/Treasurer, and Laura Downey Staneff, Program
Chair
The PMG is grateful to everyone who contributed to the success
of this meeting.
Please dowload
the following information regarding the Rochester Meeting:
Future
PMG Meetings
PMG will hold
sessions during the next Annual AIC Meeting in Denver, Colorado,
April, 2008. The theme of this AIC meeting is “Creative
Collaborations” and information on registration is available
at http://aic.stanford.edu/meetings/index.html.
Updates on the PMG sessions will be forthcoming here at the PMG
website, through Listserv, and in future Specialty Group columns
of the AIC Newsletter.
The 2009 PMG Winter Meeting will be held at the Center for Creative
Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson; dates
yet to be determined. Information on the CCP can be found at http://www.creativephotography.org/
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