Meeting with Renowned Film Archivist
On June 12th, 2012 I met with film
archivist Katherine Whitman, currently
the photograph conservator at the Art Gallery of
Ontario in Toronto. She offered valued advice for mounting and displaying
the final roll of un-cut film.
She’s a former fellow of the
Advanced Residency Program in Photograph
Conservation at the George Eastman House International Museum of
Photography in Rochester, NY, holds bachelor’s degrees in biology from Michigan
State University and fine art photography from the University of Oregon and
earned her master’s degree in paper conservation at Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ontario.
She’s been an archivist at the
University of Oregon Knight Library responsible for the rare photograph
collection and completed an internship at the Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.
Her master’s thesis
addressed the effects of polyester materials on the surface topography of
gelatin silver prints during drying.
I was honoured that she agreed to meet and
after spending an hour with her, I realized how little I knew about maintaining
well fixed and washed film emulsion.!
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