At First Light Symposium

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sbwatkins@mail.utexas.edu
Date: 08/25/03-05:07:21 PM Z


Greetings,
The announcement below is sent for your interest. For response,
please contact the site directly at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/AFL or
AFL@nora.hrc.utexas.edu. More contact information is listed at the
end of the notice. Please disregard any duplication of this posting
on various lists.
Thank you,
Stephanie Watkins

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:01:58 -0500
Subject: At First Light Symposium

At First Light: Niépce and the Dawn of Photography

International Symposium on Recent Advancements in Scientific, Art
Historical and Conservation Research Relating to the First Photograph
and Work of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Co-organized by the Harry Ransom Center and The Getty Conservation Institute

November 20 - 23, 2003
Austin, Texas, USA

The Harry Ransom Center (HRC) and the Getty Conservation Institute
(GCI) are pleased to invite you to At First Light: Niépce and the
Dawn of Photography, to be held at the HRC in Austin, Texas, November
20-23, 2003. An evening reception will be held at 7:00pm on Thursday,
November 20th; the program will run from Friday morning through
Sunday at noon.

About the Symposium:
At First Light will include presentations of unpublished results and
findings from the first in-depth scientific examination of the First
Photograph (1826) of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (pronounced nyeps).
During the course of the symposium, the new official reproduction of
the First Photograph will be presented to the public for the first
time.

Symposium Venue:
At First Light will be held at the HRC on the campus of The
University of Texas, located in the heart of downtown Austin. Special
rates are available for symposium attendees at several hotels and
B&Bs, most within walking distance of the HRC.

The official language of the symposium will be English.

Related Events:
Tours of newly opened galleries and research facilities of the HRC
Welcome reception sponsored by the GCI
Texas-style barbeque dinner

At First Light Guest Speakers:
**Sylvie Aubenas, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris:
The Importance of Nicéphore Niépce in the Collection of Photographs
of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Barbara Brown, Harry Ransom Center:
The First Photograph and its Preservation from 1963 to the Future

**François Cheval, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône:
Prose, Comments and Commentary: the Misfortune of Niépce

J. B. Colson, The University of Texas at Austin:
Niépce, Gernsheim and the Value of Being First

Eric Doehne and Anthony Peres, Getty Conservation Institute / J. Paul
Getty Museum:
Multispectral Infrared Imaging of the First Photograph

Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center:
First Date: Niépce and Gernsheim Come to Texas

**Michel Frizot, Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage, Paris:
New Light on Niépce: A Program for Knowledge and Diffusion

Gene Karraker, J. Paul Getty Museum:
Restoration of the Frame of the First Photograph

Herant Khanjian, Getty Conservation Institute:
The Analytical Investigation of the Image Layer of the First Photograph

**Bertrand Lavédrine, Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des
Documents Graphiques, Paris:
Collaborative Investigation on the Niépce Collection Artifacts and
Their Preservation

Shin Maekawa, Getty Conservation Institute:
Designing an Oxygen-Free Display Case for the First Photograph

Pierre-Yves Mahé, Spéos, Paris:
The Restoration of the Niépce Home at St. Loup-de-Varennes

Jean-Louis Marignier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orsay:
Recreation of the Conditions and the Techniques Which Allowed Niépce
to Invent Photography

**Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Museum:
Fire Dogs and Brickbats: Remarks on the Word "First"

Pamela Roberts, Independent Scholar:
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the Royal Photographic Society

Russell Roberts, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford:
Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of a National Collection

Grant Romer, George Eastman House, Rochester NY:
"Un Clair de Lune"- An Enigma in the History of the Niépce-Daguerre
Collaboration

Jack Ross and Ellen Rosenberry, J. Paul Getty Museum:
Imaging the First Photograph

Larry Schaaf, University of Glasgow:
Niépce and the British Response to Photography

Dusan C. Stulik, Getty Conservation Institute:
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Key Photochemical Experiments
Conducted Prior to 1826; and
The First Check-Up: The First "Point de Vue" in the GCI Laboratories

Tram Vo, Getty Conservation Institute:
Aging Gracefully? The First Photograph Then and Now

** to be confirmed

Symposium Fees:
Regular registration per person $150
(Includes admission to entire symposium; related events; Thursday
evening reception; and Saturday barbeque dinner, drinks and
transportation to and from restaurant)

Student registration per person $90
(Includes all items listed above)

Registration:
Registration forms are available on the At First Light website:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/AFL or from the Harry Ransom Center.

Please note: Attendance to the symposium is limited. All
registrations will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Deadline for registration is Nov. 15, 2003.

Lodging:
All attendees are responsible for securing their own lodging. A
limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Doubletree Guest
Suites in Austin, within 15 minutes walking distance of HRC, with
special rates for symposium attendees (identified as "UT Photo
Symposium"). The Doubletree's phone is (800) 222-8733; its website is
www.doubletreehotelaustin.com.

Additional suggested lodging information can be found on the At First
Light website.

At First Light Symposium
Harry Ransom Center
The University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713-7219
USA

Phone 512.471.6315
Fax 512.232.2152
Email: AFL@nora.hrc.utexas.edu
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/AFL

The Getty Conservation Institute works internationally to advance
conservation and to enhance and encourage the preservation and
understanding of the visual arts in all of their dimensions-objects,
collections, architecture, and sites. The Institute serves the
conservation community through scientific research; education and
training; field projects, and the dissemination of the results of
both its work and the work of others in the field. In all its
endeavors, the Institute is committed to addressing unanswered
questions and to promoting the highest possible standards of
conservation practice.
http://www.getty.edu

The Harry Ransom Center is one of the world's preeminent institutions
for literary and cultural research. The principal rare books and
manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin, its special
collections contain approximately 36 million manuscripts, 1 million
books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and an
important collection on performing arts. Since its inception in the
mid-1950s, the Harry Ransom Center's major emphasis has been on 20th
century literature and fine arts, principally American, British and
French.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu

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