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  • Jiuan-Jiuan Chen led a NECA-sponsored workshop on the use of UV for the examination of works of at at Harvard's Weissman Preservation Center, Nov 19, 2011.
  • Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, the first major retrospective exhibition of the work and legacy of Charles "Teenie" Harris, will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art Oct 28 -Apr 7, 2012. Paul Messier served the CMoA as a project consutlant for the Harris collection.
  • Jiuan-Jiuan Chen, Paul Messier and Karina Beeman conducted a workshop at the Hermitage Museum providing innovative techniques to document and monitor the condition of daguerreotypes for exhibition. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 19-25, 2011.
  • With Steven Cash, Paul Messier forms, Trinacria Assessment, to conduct art authentication investigations. Dec 2010.
  • Edited by Debra Hess Norris and Jennifer Jae Gutierrez, the book Issues in the Conservation of Photographs (Getty, 2010) is released. Paul Messier served on the Advisory Committee for the project and contributed two essays.
  • Art+Auction Magazine quotes Paul Messier in an article on Man Ray, February, 2010
  • Paul Messier's essay A Technical Analysis of Le Violon D'Ingres appears in the Pace/MacGill catalog for the exhibition Long Arm Of Coincidence, Apr - May 2009. [Read a review]
  • Les éditions Marval received the Prix du Mai for the book "Le Vocabulaire Technique de la Photographie." Among authors under the direction of Anne Cartier-Bresson, Paul Messier contributed two articles on the history of gelatin silver paper & crayon portraits, 2008.
  • With Sheila Foster and Emily Welch of the George Eastman House, Paul Messier participated in a project to characterize and date the Eastman House collection of PowerHouse Mechanic prints by Lewis Hine. Results of this work are presented here, Fall 2008.
  • VideoPreservation web site launches, Aug 2007
  • Research and market applications for the studio's reference collection of photographic paper are featured in Art On Paper magazine (Mar-Apr 2007) and Black & White Magazine (June 2006)

Recent presentations

Jiuan-Jiuan Chen

  • Preservation and treatment of paper negatives for the Andrew W. Mellon / AIC-funded Collaborative Workshop in Photograph Conservation on 19th Century Photographic Negative Processes, hosted by the George Eastman House on June 2011
  • Advanced photograph conservation methodologies at the National Taiwan Literature Museum and the Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics and Museology in Tainan, Taiwan, Sep 8- 27, 2011
  • Surface Matters: Treatment Challenges to Retain the Surface Characteristics of Silver Gelatin Photographs, Photographic Materials Group of AIC Bi-Annual Winter Meeting in at Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Feb 2011
  • Documenting Daguerreotypes, with conservators from State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, hosted at Paul Messier LLC, Jan 2011
  • Guest instructor for Technical Examination and Documentation, Art Conservation Department, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, New York, Spring Semester 2010
  • The Art and Zen of Daguerreotype Maintenance, a talk about conservation of daguerreotypes at the 21st annual meeting of the Daguerreian Society in Philadelphia, PA, Nov 2009
  • Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Visible Fluorescent Photo-Documentation of Daguerreotypes and an Overview of Chemical Treatment on Daguerreotypes for the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Collaborative Workshop in Photograph Conservation, Conservation of Daguerreotypes, hosted by the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Oct 2009
  • Intensive Course in Photograph Conservation, Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics, National Tainan University for the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov 2008.

Paul Messier

  • Paul Messier and Henry Wilhelm discussed research applications for their reference collections at Ryerson University, Nov 14, 2011.
  • "Twentieth century photographic papers: Methodologies for authentication and dating" at a conference on science applied to the conservation of photographs held in Logroño, Spain, June 20-23, 2011. His paper is available here.
  • "The Hermitage Project: The FAIC / Mellon initiative to establish department of Photograph Conservation, Photographic Materials Group Luncheon, AIC Annual meeting, Philadelphia, June, 2011.
  • New methods to date 20th C. fine art photographs at the TEFAF fair in Maastricht, March 21, 2011. Some details.
  • Materials & Techniques of Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres Aug 2009 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Sept 2009, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan, 2011
  • Results of the Andrew W. Mellon supported survey of photograph collections at the State Hermitage Museum were presented by in a symposium held Apr 27-May 1, 2009. The survey began with an opening seminar in St. Petersburg in Oct 2007 and was followed by site visits to numerous collections during the Spring and Fall of 2008

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