AIC’s Photographic Materials Group is excited to host the 2025 PMG Winter Meeting. The program is below and will be updated with pre-session events, like tours and other options. Browse therates and make sure you register before they go up!
The M+ Museum is striving to establish new guidelines to direct the decision-making process for the conservation of photographs during acquisitions and throughout the conservation of legacy works, with a particular emphasis on reproduction awareness.
The goal is to fully comprehend each photograph as a unique work of art while taking into account the opinions of various museum stakeholders. It also aims to provide advice and negotiate on the best long-term collection care strategies for the museum and whether reproduction could aid in preservation.
This presentation will draw attention to certain crucial areas: The first step is to establish descriptive terminology for different types of reproductions that acknowledge stakeholders, nomenclature, and budgets. Second, diligent work on setting up a procedure for evaluating the collection's values and allocating stakeholders to those attributions, including the combination of the museum's artist questionnaire with the photographic information record. Thirdly, incorporating this work into the museum's overall guidelines, procedures, policies, and standards.
In order to comprehend the collection and recommend the best conservation measures, the work is being developed in cooperation with the registration, curatorial, and collections database teams under the (color) photographic committee. This presentation will provide an overview of the work done over the past two years, our starting point, preliminary case studies, and ongoing work.
