News Archive: News, Publications and Presentations
With colleagues from Harvard University, Paul Messier participated in a panel discussion entitled "A New Methodology for Surveying Photograph Collections" at the Society of American Archivist's annual meeting in San Francisco, August 30, 2008.
Museum of Fine Arts, Friends of Photography Event, Behind the Scenes with Paul Messier, May 14, 2008.
Paul Messier Presented History and stylistic development of gelatin silver developing out paper, The Photographic Materials Group (PMG) of the American Institute of Conservation, Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado April 21-24, 2008.
Chapters entitled Crayon Portraits and 20th Century Black and White Papers for the book Le Vocabulaire Technique de la Photographie, éditions Marval, 2008, edited by Anne Cartier-Bresson. Awarded the Prix du Mai for outstanding art book.
Research and market applications for the studio's reference collection of photographic paper are featured in Art On Paper magazine (March/ April 2007) and Black & White Magazine (June 2006)
Updates on collaborative research projects with the Museum of Modern Art presented by Paul Messier, at the Photographic Materials Research Group Meeting, MoMA, November 15, 2007.
VideoPreservation website launches, August 2007.
Paul Messier featured in House Beautiful magazine, August, 2006.
Chapter entitled Knowing What You Have - Technical Analysis of Photographs with Notes on Fakes and Forgeries for the book The Photograph Collector’s Guide, Bullfinch Press. In press.