On Sunday, 19th August 2018, we commemorated the World Photo Day. On this day in 1839, the invention of daguerreotype, one of the first practically used photographic method, was officially introduced to the members of the French Academy of Sciences. After 179 years, photography has gone through complicated developments. Varied photographic techniques have emerged, some of them have become a dead end in the development of photography, others are still used till today. As the years passed, photographs started to show aging, inappropriate storage and damage caused by various causes. Archives, museums and other institutions often have a large number of photographic materials in their collections, and in the last few years they are more and more focusing on their rescue and preventive care. This is the task of the Conservation Lab of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (IAH), which celebrates 10 years since its foundation.
For further details and important actions organised by the IAH CAS see the attachment.
The upcoming events of IAH focused on photography
5 September 2018 Festival of Science - Photographic Studio (Vítězné náměstí, Prague 6)
7 November 2018 at 4:30 pm Fedora Parkman (Sorbonne Université): International Transfers of Czechoslovak Interwar Photography - lecture within the Collegium Historiae Artium (Husova 4, Prague 1). The lecture will be held in Czech language.
7 November 2018 at 6:00 pm opening of exhibition (No)collection of photographs in Window Gallery IAH (Husova 4, Prague 1)
28 November 2018 at 4:30– prof. Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester / V & A Research Institute, London): "Non-Collections" – lecture within the Collegium Historiae Artium (Husova 4, Prague 1)
