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Recent Research on Daguerreotypes at George Eastman House

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The 2005 George Eastman House exhibition, "Young America, the Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes," launched a research collaboration among Eastman House conservators, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, focused on these fragile early photographs. The research has encouraged the Mellon Foundation to support efforts to standardize and share common examination methods, develop image-based condition databases, and establish a standardized condition descriptive lexicon for daguerreotypes. Additional funding could advance efforts to understand the deterioration mechanisms of the complex daguerreotype structure, and to associate that with macro and micro imaging work. Such efforts could lead to new treatments for daguerreotypes, in addition to the development of an anoxic housing system for significant, at-risk images.

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