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City: San Rafael, CA
Telephone:
  1-415-446-9138

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Archival Collections
• Identification of Photographic Processes

Research Interests

• Preservation of Collections
• Gelatin Silver Print Deterioration
• History/Technology of Color Photography

Gawain M. Weaver

Lecturer

Gawain Weaver is photograph conservator in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation. He earned his M.A. in art history and advanced diploma in art conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2005), and was a fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House and the Image Permanence Institute (2005-2007). He has studied photograph conservation at Library and Archives Canada, the Amon Carter Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Northeast Document Conservation Center, and teaches workshops on photograph conservation and preservation.

Recent research interests have included the deterioration of fine art platinum prints in the work of Irving Penn, a materials-based understanding of Kodak’s chromogenic color print process from 1942-Present, and the creation of an illustrated guide to gelatin silver print deterioration.

Courses Taught

• > [284] Seminar in Archives & Records Management

Education

• MA (Art History) New York University (2005)
• Advanced diploma (Art Conservation) New York University (2005)
• BA (Chemistry/Art History) Sonoma State University (2001)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Photograph Conservator in Private Practice, San Rafael, CA (2008-)
• Research Fellow, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology (2007-2008)
• Fellow, Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation, George Eastman House and Image Permanence Institute (2005-2007)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

• Weaver, G. and Long, Z. (2009). Chromogenic Characterization: Kodak Color Prints, 1942-2008. Topics in Photographic Preservation 13.
• Frey, F., Heller, D., Kushel, D., Vitale, T., J. Warda, G. Weaver. (2008). The AIC Guide to Digital Photography and Conservation Documentation, (J. Warda, Ed.). Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation.
• Weaver, G. (2008). A Guide to Fiber-Base Gelatin Silver Print Condition and Deterioration, Retrieved from http://www.arp-geh.org//indexsep.aspx?nodeidp=395.
• Weaver, G. (2007). Early Color Photography. In Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (Ed.), Bloom! Experiments in Color Photography by Edward Steichen (pp. 34-37) Luxembourg: Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
• Weaver, G. (2005). Commercial Photograph Coatings in North America, 1950 to the Present. In Constance McCabe (Ed.), Coatings on Photographs: Materials, Techniques, and Conservation (pp. 200-217). Washington, DC: American Institute for Conservation.
• Weaver, G. (2005). Capital Portraits: Conservation of the Topley Studio Index. Electronic publication, held at the School of Information Science Digital Repository, UT Austin. Retrieved from http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~anagpic/pdfs/Weaver.pdf.

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