Library and Archive digital collections website

In July 2007, The Getty Foundation awarded a generous grant to the British School at Rome Archive to support the arrangement and description of part of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. As a result of this 2-year project, a website of the BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts. The majority of the digital images displayed on this website are represented by the photographs catalogued during the second Getty Foundation funded project.

This website will be available from the 1st November 2009

  P.P. Mackey at Ponte Catena

Immagini e Memoria

June-September 2009

To publicise the Getty Foundation funded project, the first of a series of Archive exhibitions entitled Immagini e memoria, illustrating Italy in the late nineteenth century through images from the historic photographic collections held in the Archive, was inaugurated in the BSR Gallery in January 2005: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey, 1890-1901. These 70 unpublished photographs had never been seen before and the exhibition was a resounding success with over 650 visitors and excellent press coverage.

Thanks to an exciting partnership that was established in 2008 between Sir John Soane’s Museum and the British School at Rome, the perfect venue has been found for the exhibition to be shown in London. The Museum has very generously agreed to host the exhibition for 3 months from June to September 2009. The interests of the two institutions overlap and complement each other remarkably, as do the contents of the Museum and BSR Library holdings, for example, the collection of volumes on the Grand Tour and the bound volumes of engravings of vedute of Rome from the 16th–19th centuries. It is hoped that this will be the first in a series of joint projects and the BSR will offer reciprocal hospitality to Sir John Soane’s Museum for future events in Rome.

The BSR is going to publish a catalogue of these photographs of Rome taken between 1890-1901 by Father P.P. Mackey, with a scholarly essay by Robert Coates-Stephens, BSR Cary Fellow, to accompany the exhibition in London.

Immagini e Memoria

ITINERARI ABRUZZESI

Archeologia, arte e folklore nelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby (1901-1923)

23th April– 22nd May 2008

 The British School at Rome
Via A. Gramsci, 61

Rome

Opening: Tuesday 22nd April 2008, 6.00 pm

Immagini e Memoria

I GIGANTI DELL'ACQUA
Acquedotti romani del Lazio nelle fotografie di Thomas Ashby  (1892-1925)

5th October - 6 November 2007

The British School at Rome
Via A. Gramsci, 61

Rome

Opening: Thursday 4th October, 6.00 pm

History of Photography workshop

22-24 October 2007

The Photographic Archive is very pleased to host a three-day workshop on the History of Photography by Giulia Cucinella Briant and Lorenzo Scaramella:

Care and identification of non-silver photographic printing processes.

The course will be held on the following days:

• 22 October 2007: 9,30-13,00; 14,00-17,00.

• 23 October 2007: 9,30-13,00; 14,00-17,00.
• 24 October 2007: 9,30-13,00.

During the workshop will be addressed the following issues:

• Origin of non-silver photographic printing processes.
• Use of bichromate salts: carbon print and gum bichromate print.
• The collotype printing process.
• Ferric iron salts techniques: cyanotypes, platinum prints, kallitypes.
• Toning processes.
• Identification and conservation of non-silver photographic printing processes.

Anyone interested in joining the seminar should contact the Archivist Alessandra Giovenco at the following email address: archive@bsrome.it

Maximum 25 participants.

Cost per person:130,00 Euro+VAT(20%)

Registration will be accepted from 1st September 2007.

Giulia Cucinella Briant, consultant for the conservation and restoration of photographic material. Teaches in Paris at the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) .

Lorenzo Scaramella, photographer and professor of History of Photography at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples.