The 7th AICCM Book, Paper & Photographs Symposium was held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in August 2012.
Members can download Symposium papers online or alternatively Symposium preprints are available from our Bookstore.
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract This paper discusses dilemmas and challenges associated with conservation treatment of two water-damaged mixed media artworks by John Olsen.These are important and beautiful large-format artworks on paper, poor storage of which had resulted in water and mud damage […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract The conservation treatment of photographic albums dating to the nineteenth century has been examined in the past in various workshops, publications and conservation articles. The focus of this paper is two unique photographic albums with rare pictures from the […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Poster In 2009 a team of State Library of New South Wales conservators preserved a trade union banner for display in ONE hundred, the Mitchell Library centenary exhibition. The trade union banner created for the Sydney branch of the […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Poster In 2009 the Rees family gifted 130 drawings by Lloyd Rees to the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) collection. The drawings represent Rees’ impressions of Sydney after moving from Brisbane in 1917 and are mostly executed […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract The nineteenth century photographic processes ambrotype and tintype are used today by Ben Cauchi, a New Zealand contemporary artist, to explore ideas of memory, history and the history of photography itself. The Art Gallery of New South Wales […]
Download Contributions and Acknowledgements to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium, 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia [Adobe Acrobat PDF – 120.88 KB]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract Zines, homemade pamphlets from kitchen benches, home offices or artists’ studios – anyone who has anything to say can self-publish. Zines have been around since the 1920s, and are an artistic form of expression that is gaining momentum. […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract Best practice for establishing the authenticity of an artwork should be a collaborative process, which results from the expertise of art historians and the technical examinations carried out by conservators. This is demonstrated by a number of forgeries […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Abstract In our technologically sophisticated world, we are continually witnessing rapid changes to audiovisual (AV) formats and ‘platforms’ used by artists. How can we possibly keep up? There is recognition that the obsolescence that goes hand-in-hand with such advances […]
Contributions to the 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium 29g31 August 2012 Brisbane, Australia Poster Microfading is an accelerated light-fading test method in which a sub-millimetre spot of very intense visible light is focused on an object and the resultant (visually undetectable) colour change is tracked in real time using reflectance spectroscopy. The […]