Friday, November 9, 2012 hours 14:00
The restoration of Photography. Analogical and Digital Photography and Cinema Materials , presentation of the e-book

Friday November 9 - 2012, from 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.


Restorers have a natural empathy towards the artworks they are restoring. In the case of restoration of photographs, emotional distances are even more difficult to maintain, since the photographic objects, complex and made of various materials, are the bearers of those slices of world unpremeditated as explained very well by Susan Sontag. This volume collects in a choral way the contributions from a large number of conservators and scholars of photography, arguing in detail the phases of prevention, conservation and restoration of photographic and cinematographic materials. The publication search to create a methodological basis to address the restoration of photographic material, which were recognized in Italy as cultural heritage only in the beginning of the twenty-first century (Legislative Decree 490/1999)

Attending; Fulvio Cervini, Director of the Postgraduate School of Art and Historical Heritage at the University of Florence. Barbara Cattaneo, curator of the book and its authors

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