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Paul Messier LLC - Photograph Conservation

Paul Messier LLC is a world-leading studio specializing in photograph conservation. http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmessier

The studio serves the preservation needs of institutions and private clients. Art conservation services
-Conservation treatment of photographic materials as well as of works of art and artifacts on paper is the studio’s primary and sustaining focus.
-Conservation surveys for private and institutional clients is another key pursuit.
-The studio’s reference collection of photographic papers contr

ibutes to authentication and art historical studies and affords materials research opportunities and applications.

12/22/2022

Happy Holidays!

09/24/2022

Show Notes This week’s guest, Paul Messier, is an excellent example of the potential for creativity that lies within the unique brand of entrepreneurship that is running an independent conservation practice. Although working as an independent art conservator comes with many unique challenges (Paul...

08/19/2022

Our Photographic Materials Group (PMG) is seeking abstracts for their next Winter Meeting, which will take place February 23-24, 2023, at the Harry Ransom Center. Abstracts are due by Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 5 pm ET.

Abstracts may be submitted dealing with the preservation and conservation of photographic materials from conservators, students, and professionals in allied fields. A limited number of speaker stipends will also be offered and more information about stipends will be available during the abstract acceptance process.

Presentations formats will include the following:

- 20-minute presentations of completed research/work, major research/work in progress
- 10-minute presentations of completed research/work, research/work in progress
- Poster presentations of completed research/work, research/work in progress

Learn more and submit abstracts here: https://bit.ly/3oR37fm

05/13/2022

Diane is working on the album with Peruvian photographs from 1930s.

05/04/2022

The Photography Show presented with AIPAD is almost here!
Conservators Diane Tafilowski and Karina Beeman will be visiting the show on Friday, May 20th. If you would like to arrange a time to speak with us during the show, please contact us at 617-782-7110, or at [email protected] (Diane) and [email protected] (Karina).
We hope to see you there!

04/02/2022

Happy Saturday from Crawford Path!

03/04/2022

"Eerie photographs recovered from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America are now being published for the first time."

Our studio worked with several of the daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from the SS Central America shipwreck (1857). Check out this recent article in the Guardian for more information on some of the treasures that were discovered on the ocean floor!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/27/doomed-ship-of-golds-ghostly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

01/24/2022

Pictured here is conservator Karina Beeman working on a mounted Edward Weston gelatin silver print. She is using a microscope to look at the treatment in progress as closely as possible.

Photograph by Edward Weston © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.

Happy Holidays! We wish you a safe and healthy new year! - Diane, Karina and Lauren.❄❄Please email admin@paulmessier.com...

12/25/2021

Happy Holidays! We wish you a safe and healthy new year! - Diane, Karina and Lauren.

❄❄Please email [email protected] to schedule any deliveries between December 27th-January 3rd.❄❄

Photos:
1. Kindergarten holiday concert from Karina's family archive (Blazhenovy), Leningrad, USSR, late 1950s. They are performing a Russian fairytale where a turnip is pulled out of the ground (Repka). Her mother is one of the children, on far left, dressed as the turnip!

2. "Three Christmas Graces," from Lauren’s family archive (McDonough), Boston, early 1950s. Lauren's grandmother is pictured on the right with two friends in front of a Christmas tree.

12/04/2021

Meet Emily Finney, our Fall 2021 graduate student intern! Emily is currently in her final semester in Preservation Studies at Boston University. Today is her last day in the studio, three months have flown by very fast!

Emily’s internship with us provided her hands-on experience with early photographic processes, an interest she wanted to explore more of. While here in the studio, Emily has worked on different storage techniques for specific types of fragile photographic objects, such as ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and tintypes. She also created a housing sample set using her own collection of photographs. Swipe through to see some examples!

Videos of Emily‘s work can be seen on our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCWnVFFKOj/?utm_medium=copy_link

11/24/2021

Today as many families are getting ready for their Thanksgiving feast, we are sharing this McDonough family photo from Lauren's family archive. Here is her grandmother prepping what looks like a cake mix and her great-grandmother washing dishes.

There is no date on this photo, but just for fun, we looked up the backprinting on the Paul Messier Historic Photographic Papers Collection Backprinting Project website (backprinting.com). By matching the Kodak "Velox" backprinting, we were able to narrow the date down to the early 1940s.

If you want to learn more about analysis and characterization services we offer, please visit www.paulmessier.com

11/11/2021

Today we are honoring the service and sacrifice of all veterans and their families.

We thought we would share this truly great image that we treated a while ago. This photograph shows American and French soldiers, including American Oscar Calmeise (center right), in 1918 during WWI.

Oscar Calmeise was a member of the 372nd Infantry Regiment.

Swipe to see the before treatment image. The treatment involved surface cleaning, local consolidation and flattening of the creases, overall flattening of the photograph, and image loss compensation.

Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Greer-Calmeise Family of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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