Getting to Grips with Your Photographic Collection

Scottish Council on Archives

The first in a series of webinars  offering guidance on caring, storing, and cataloguing photographs.

***You can join us on YouTube Live for the event here: <a href="https://youtu.be/x1fad-bcU4g" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/x1fad-bcU4g</a>***From identifying photographic type and how to care for them to dating images through fashion, these sessions will explore many different aspects of managing photographs in archive collections. Designed for archivists and anyone with photographs in their collection, the webinars will give practical advice from experts, and offer guidance on caring, storing, and cataloguing items.Each session will take place on Zoom and run for around thirty minutes, featuring a short presentation with plenty of opportunity for your questions.This session will provide an outline of the ways in which archivists might divide up photographic collections, whether into positives and negatives, black and white and colour, or by subject matter, format, or materials, and why each may be relevant.We are delighted to be working with Susie Clark, photographic conservator, to create a series of workshops that will give you insight and advice on managing your photographic collections.About Susie:Susie Clark ACR ICON is an accredited Photographic Conservator and Consultant with many years of experience. She has worked for a large number of institutions, organizations and private individuals in Britain and abroad. She was the recipient of the Museums and Galleries Commission Jerwood Conservation Award for Research and Innovation for her work on the conservation of wet collodion positives. She was also the conservator for the Collaborative Research Project between the National Science and Media Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute looking at characteristics of different photographic processes. She has taught for many organizations and written for many publications. She is currently Assistant Co-ordinator for the ICOM-CC Photographic Materials Group and a committee member of the York Consortium for Conservation and Craftmanship which provides bursaries. She was previously a committee member of the Film and Sound Group of the Society of Archivists. She was recently an Honorary Teaching Fellow for the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at the University of Dundee.

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