Re: The Center for Photographic History and Technology

Richard,
My name is Connie Largess and I spoke to you briefly at the end of the APIS
conference last month. I am very excited about the Center for Photographic
History and Technology because I believe it is very much aligned with what I
am attempting to do (on a much smaller scale) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I have
recently opened Dark Horse Studio, a studio / gallery which will be
exclusively dedicated to historic photographic processes. My mission is to
preserve historic photographic processes by exclusively working and
conducting research of historical photographic processes as well as hosting
exhibits and classes by visiting artists working in the historic processes.
The gallery space is approximately 1000 sq feet and the studio space has a
fully equiped wet darkroom that has a 12 ft stainless sink and ventelated
fume hood. I am currently working primarily with the daguerreotype process
(traditional mercury development under tightly controled ventelated fume
hood) and wet plate (on glass and tintypes) as well as platinum/palladium. I
would be very interested in forming an informal affiliate group and would
greatly appreciate any and all advise that you and your orginization might
be kind enough to provide. I believe that the time is ripe to do everything
possible to help preserve existing images and educate people about the
beautiful photographic processes that built the foundation of photography as
we know it today. I want to do whatever I can to insure that in the future
others will have access to information and instruction about these processes
so they can continue to be performed and the beauty of these images can be
enjoyed. (Sorry....didn't mean to carry on, but I'm passionate about my
mission).

Thanks for taking on this vast project and I look foward to being a founding
member of the Center for Photographic History and Technology and would
greatly appreciate any and all advise and guidance on how Dark Horse Studio
can assist in the mission of the Center. Please feel free to contact me by
phone or email.

Kind regards,

Connie Largess
cell: 918-633-2815
studio: 918-742-2003
home: 918-491-6367

  ----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sullivan" <richsul@earthlink.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: The Center for Photographic History and Technology

> Those of you who were at APIS already know about the Center so this is for
> the uninitiated.
>
> You can sign up at:
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> http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/Center.htm
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> Thanks to my former organization, Bostick & Sullivan for temporarily
> hosting the sign up site. Much good stuff is happening and I wish I could
> talk about some of it but the time is not right.
>
> We are a brand new organization and only received our Federal 501(c)(3)tax
> exempt status in early July 2005. The Center is an organization that seeks
> to integrate photography's unique technologies as a vital part of its
> history. It will provide a link between photo historians, museums,
> curators and conservators and the Center's membership base of
> photographers preserving historical photographic processes as living art
> forms. Major projects planned include a body of technical advisors to aid
> research, an analog collection of books and prints, and a digital
> searchable knowledge base of historic writings on photographic technology.
> We are encouraging the formation of informal affiliate groups throughout
> the United States and the world at large. We already have startup groups
> in Mexico City and Seattle Washington. These groups will seek to preserve
> local collections of photographs and provide a networking environment for
> printmaking photographers.
>
> The Alternative Photographic International Symposium will expand to
> include photographic history and will be sponsored by the Center. The
> Center will host a variety of seminars periodically on subjects of
> interest to photographers and historians.
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> The Center will support through its programs the growing body of
> photographers who feel that the hand made photograph (now including
> gelatin silver) is their vehicle of choice for self expression in
> photography.
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> Your membership will help provide the initial funding for this valuable
> organization. At APIS in July we raised over $5000.00 in memberships and
> donations.
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> If you plan on forming a group in your community let us know and we'll see
> what we can do to help. We are learning a lot of this as we go.
>
> I invite questions and comments.
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> Cheers
>
> --Dick Sullivan
> Executive Director
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Received on Fri Aug 5 12:40:36 2005