BehindtheScenes Category

Widening MoDA’s Reach

Using Jstor's Open Community Collections platform to expand the impact of MoDA's digital resources well beyond our immediate community

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DREEMS: students find out more

What is the thinking behind MoDA’s DREEMS project?  Students from Middlesex University’s Promotional Video course interviewed Dr Zoe Hendon to find out more: We think the students have done a great job of explaining the issues. Huge thanks to them all for their hard work: Luca Verzelloni Mauro Ferreira Leal Veronika Janniova Emily Flores Padilla […]

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MoDA Calendar 2023 now available

MoDA have collaborated with Flame Tree Arts who have produced this calendar for 2023. Featured in the calendar are 12 Katagami (Japanese Stencils) designs from MoDA’s Silver Studio Collection. The calendar is £10.99 and can be purchased here.

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Conservation: rebinding Ogawa

The process of conservation revealed unexpected and fascinating details about the construction of the Ogawa albums of collotypes, which helps shed light on their history as part of a dialogue between Japan and the West.

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Conservation: Ogawa photography meets biochemistry (2021)

We employed Lara Speroni, archives and books conservator (ACR), in December 2019 to conserve two volumes of collotypes by celebrated Japanese photographer, Kasumasa Ogawa. The plan was that the conservation work would dovetail around the loan of pages from these albums to Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition, Unearthed: Photography’s Roots. A Conservation Challenge Lara’s brief was […]

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Loan: Unearthed, Dulwich Picture Gallery (2020)

Unearthed: Photography’s Roots was the first major photography show at Dulwich Picture Gallery, bringing together over 100 works by 25 leading international photographers, many never seen before.   The exhibition traced the history of photography as told through depictions of nature. It showed how the subject of nature led to key advancements in the medium […]

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