October 5, 2010, Filed Under: Conservation, PhotographyBefore and After: A Henry Peach Robinson photograph Before: Henry Peach Robinson, 'Bringing Home the May,' ca. 1862-1863. Albumen print. After: Henry Peach Robinson, 'Bringing Home the May,' ca. 1862-1863. Albumen print. “Before and After” goes behind the scenes with the the Ransom Center’s conservation department. The most recent installment highlighted work that Head of Photograph Conservation Barbara Brown completed on the Henry Peach Robinson photograph “Bringing Home the May,” taken ca. 1862–1863. Some of Robinson’s work is on view in the current exhibition Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection.
