Educación para la Conservación del Patrimonio Fotográfico

28/08/2026

🎬✨ EUGÈNE COURRET, DE LA SOMBRA A LA LUZ

El Club de la Unión presenta un documental que nos invita a conocer la vida y obra de Eugène Courret, pionero de la fotografía y testigo visual de un Perú en transformación.

🇫🇷 Una producción francesa dirigida por Gérard Thomas, realizada con el apoyo de la Compañía de Bomberos France 3.

📅 Jueves 27 de agosto
📍 Salón Grau
🕢 7:30 p. m.
🎟️ Ingreso libre | Código de vestimenta: Sport Formal

🎙️ Contaremos con la participación del Dr. Carlos Estela, investigador en historia visual y fotografía del siglo XIX peruano.

Una oportunidad para descubrir, reflexionar y valorar un legado que conecta Francia y el Perú. 🇵🇪🇫🇷

28/08/2026

Speaker Highlight: 2026 Daguerreian Society Symposium

This year’s events, to be held in Washington, D.C., from October 15–17, feature compelling speakers bringing fresh research, new discoveries, and unexpected perspectives to the images, people, processes, and stories that continue to shape our understanding of 19th-century photography.

Meet one of our speakers:

**Reflections: The Making of Modern Daguerreotypes in China**
By Jingxian Wu

Established in Nanjing in 2020, HLiiC is dedicated to the research and practice of 19th-century handmade photography. In just five years, it has grown from tentative experiments into an active image laboratory and gallery, rebuilding the craft of making daguerreotypes on solid silver plates in a country where the process left no living tradition.

Today, HLiiC makes daguerreotypes for artists, collectors, museums, and private clients, while its exhibitions, seminars, and courses introduce the process to new audiences. This presentation traces that journey, exploring how a daguerreian practice takes root without an established tradition, what Chinese clients and audiences seek from the plate, and what the daguerreotype is becoming in China.

**Jingxian Wu** is academic director of HLiiC (Hengli Image Centre) in Nanjing. Her research explores early 19th-century imaging technologies and the place of historical photographic processes in contemporary art and visual culture. Through curating, seminars, and writing, she works to bring early photography into contemporary Chinese discourse.

From historic discoveries to contemporary practice, the 2026 Symposium celebrates the extraordinary breadth and continuing vitality of early photography.

2026 Daguerreian Society Symposium
Washington, D.C.
October 15–17, 2026

Learn more about the presenters and presentations, explore the rest of the program, register, and reserve your hotel room:
https://daguerreiansociety.org/Symposium2026

26/08/2026

Speaker Highlight: 2026 Daguerreian Society Symposium

This year’s events, to be held in Washington, D.C., from October 15–17, feature compelling speakers bringing fresh research, new discoveries, and unexpected perspectives to the images, people, processes, and stories that continue to shape our understanding of 19th-century photography.

Meet one of our speakers:

**A Spotlight Breaks the Dark: Made by Light, Threatened by Time and Humans**
By Ariadna Romer

As the bicentennial of the public announcement of the daguerreotype approaches, increased attention will bring new opportunities—and risks—for the world’s earliest commercially viable photographic process. Daguerreotypes will be collected, studied, exhibited, handled, reproduced, and, inevitably, sometimes mishandled.

This presentation examines the culture surrounding the care and stewardship of daguerreotypes and considers what must be done to ensure their long-term survival. It highlights preservation challenges and explores how institutions, collectors, and others can better protect and appreciate these fragile objects as an essential part of the world’s cultural heritage.

**Ariadna Romer** is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A graduate of Mexico’s National School for Conservation, Restoration and Museography, she has worked with institutions and projects across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She also teaches in educational programs devoted to the conservation of photographic heritage in Mexico and Uruguay.

From historic discoveries to contemporary practice, the 2026 Symposium celebrates the extraordinary breadth and continuing vitality of early photography.

2026 Daguerreian Society Symposium
Washington, D.C.
October 15–17, 2026

Learn more about the presenters and presentations, explore the rest of the program, register, and reserve your hotel room:
https://daguerreiansociety.org/Symposium2026

18/08/2026

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02/08/2026

Imágenes Halladas.
En 1974 empecé a coleccionar fotografía histórica de la región poblana, en esos años aún los anticuarios eran una fuente accesible. La pátina de las imágenes obtenida al paso por el tiempo es el foco que me motiva a la adquisición de los objetos fotográficos.
Las funciones, los formatos y los procesos fotográficos fueron guías para mi formación autodidacta.
En esa época no había ni día, ni mes mundial de la fotografía, pero si había sábados y domingos para salir a buscar fotos y releer las imágenes halladas.