Paper & Photograph
Conservation
at Parma Conservation
Laboratory
Parma Conservation is pleased to announce paper and photograph conservation as an additional service of Parma Conservation laboratory. With Bozena Szymanski, Parma will now provide the same quality, standards, and ethics in paper and photographic conservation that has always upheld in paintings and murals.
Bozena comes to Parma as a highly respected conservator. She has been a professional in the field for over 20 years, and holds a Master’s degree in Conservation from the prestigious Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland. Her experience, both in Europe and the U.S., ranges from museums to private collections, from public art to insurance claims. Whether it is a 300-year-old piece brittle with age, or a 30-year-old piece marred by accident, we will now provide you and your paper and photographic artwork with the excellent care that you have come to expect from Parma Conservation.
Bozena Szymanski's
Selected Projects
Camera Work produced in New York
between 1903 and 1917, is considered
the most beautiful photographic journal
ever published, and one of the most
influential. Thirty-five issues and
nineteen duplicate issues had to be dry
cleaned, tears repaired, losses filled,
pages guarded and reattached, covers
restored, it’s edges lined and attached
to spines.
The French Daguerreotype was
opened, and losses in the black
pigment on the hand painted glass
(French mat) were inpainted with black
Liquitex. A black liner was cut from
2Ply Mylar. These two layers lie
between the glass mat and the plate
edges. Behind the plate is a sheet of
Mylar to separate the plate from the
final board backing. All of these
components were sealed at the edges
with Filmoplast P91tape.