#Photographs Category
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.
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 […]
Anne Burke: Reinterpreting MoDA’s photography collections
Thousands of photographic images can be found within the books, folios and prints of MoDA’s collection. They depict various subjects, from nineteenth-century portraits to botanical images of trees, flowers and plants. They also depict museum objects such as textiles and ceramics from Europe and elsewhere. Many of these photographs were acquired by the Silver Studio […]