Truth and Vanity

Scientific production associated with this project:

PhD Thesis

Pereira, C. (2022) “Truth and vanity: the retouching techniques on dry plate negatives of Portuguese collections of the first half of the twentieth century”, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39634

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Exhibition

30 Set – 2 Dez 2018 Memória Recapturada – O estúdio Foto-Carvalho (1936-2000)

Org. Catarina Pereira, Estúdios Correia com a colaboração da Câmara Municipal de Estremoz e o Palácio dos Marqueses de Praia e Monforte, Estremoz.

http://artes.porto.ucp.pt/pt/central-noticias/exposicao-fotografia-memoria-recapturada ; http://www.cm-estremoz.pt/noticias/exposicao-de-fotografia-memoria-recapturada-em-estremoz

 

Conference

14 Set 2018 - Limpeza de fundos e colecções de negativos fotográficos. Limpar para quê?

Co-organizado pelo CITAR, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e o CPF - Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto http://artes.porto.ucp.pt/node/17871

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Texts in peer-reviewed journals

Pereira, C. & Castro L. (2019) “Memória Recapturada: Imagens de uma comunidade”. ArtisON, 9, 125-139, 

http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/245

 

Pereira, C & Castro L. (2016-2017) “Retouching glass plates negatives - What do old manuals say” ECR, 8, 59-70,

https://doi.org/10.7559/ecr.8.14226; http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26271

 

Pereira, C., et al (2017) “Retouching Scientific Photography – The Glass Plate Negatives Collection at the Natural History and Science Museum – University of Porto” , Ge-conservación, 1, n. 12, 101-110, ISSN 1989-8568

https://ge-iic.com/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/540; http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/24082

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Full articles in books

Pereira, C., et al (2022) “Retocar la tercera dimensión. El archivo de negativos estereoscópicos de Aurélio da Paz dos Reis” in HERNÁNDEZ LATAS, José Antonio (Dir. & ed). III Jornadas Sobre Investigación en Historia de la Fotografía. La fotografía estereoscópica o en 3D, siglos XIX y XX, Institución Fernando el Católico (CSIC), Zaragoza, https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/39/36/20cortes.pdf

 

Pereira, C., et al (2019) “Digitizing collections - A reflection on negative archive collections, prioritizing procedures and what is lost,” in Topics in Photographic Preservation, 2019 ICOM-CC PMWG & PMG joint meeting in New York, Vol 18, https://resources.culturalheritage.org/pmg-topics/2019-volume-eighteen/

 

Pereira, C. (2016) “Materials and techniques for retouching glass plate photographic negatives at the beginning of the 20th century”, International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage - RECH3: Postprints, 65-72, 

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/23495

 

Oral presentations

• 4 Nov 2021 “When retouching was an artist’s profession in photography.”  6th International Meeting on Retouching of Cultural Heritage, organized by RECH Group and Valencia Polytechnic University, http://rechgroup.pt/rech6.html (online) 

• 18 Jun 2021 “Retouching the third dimension – The Aurélio da Paz dos Reis stereoscopic negatives archive.” (2nd edition), 4th International Conference – Stereoscopic and Immersive Media – Photography, Sound and Cinema Research, Organized by Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal, https://stereoimmersivemedia.ulusofona.pt/ (online)

• 16-Jun 2021 “Photography beyond two dimensions – Exhibition and re-valuation of materiality.”, 2021 AIC/SPNHC Joint Virtual Annual Meeting, USA, https://www.culturalheritage.org/events/annual-meeting/current-meeting (online)

• Nov 2019 “Retouching the third dimension – The Aurélio da Paz dos Reis stereoscopic negatives archive.” (1ª edition), III Conference on Research in History of Photography: Stereoscopic or 3D photography, 19th and 20th centuries, organized by Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza, Espanha, 

• Fev 2019 “Digitizing collections - A reflection on negative archive collections, prioritizing procedures and what is lost.”, 2019 ICOM-CC PMWG & PMG joint meeting in New York, USA,

• 19-20 Out 2018 “Reflections on the digitization of photographic negative collections and the loss of «aura»”, 2º Meeting on Documentation and Digital Representation of Cultural Objects (DRD-BC), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto.

• 27-29 Set 2018 “Identification of retouching varnishes in glass and gelatin negatives from the Alvão studio portrait collection – Development of analytical methodology”, II Colloquiumon  Investigations in Heritage Conservation, Fac.de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 

• 14 Set 2018 “Retouching Gelatin and Silver Negatives on Glass, from Portuguese Photographic Collections”,  Meeting Cleaning of backgrounds and photographic negative collections. Clean. For what? Co-organized by CITAR, Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa and CPF - Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto.

• 17-19 Mai2018 “Memory recaptured in a small community: Preserving retouched photographic negatives, discussing visual culture” International Multidisciplinary Congress - Web of Knowledge: A look into the Past, embracing the Future, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

• 2-3 Mai2016 “Retouching glass negatives – What the manuals say”, Doctoral Days, Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto.         

 

Posters

• Pereira C., et al “O Retoque de Negativos Fotográficos de Gelatina e Prata Sobre Vidro em Colecções Portuguesas” Encontro Ciência ’17, Lisboa, 3-5 Jul 2017

• Pereira C., et al “O retoque na fotografia científica – a colecção de negativos de vidro do Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto (MHNC-UP)” I Colloquio Investigações em Conservação do Património, Lisboa, 29-30 Set 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/23213