Collected episode six - Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits
Reverse-painted glass framed photographs are a rare and fragile part of the Memorial’s collection. The Memorial has the largest-known collection of these unique portraits in the world. In episode six of Collected Louise Maher talks to Curator Joanne Smedley about these works and the exhibition currently on display at the Memorial. In conversation with art conservator Janet Hearne, Louise gets an insight into the delicate challenge of preserving these precious artefacts.
Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:
- Joanne Smedley, Curator Photographs, Film and Sound
- Janet Hearne, Paintings Conservator
Original music: Andy Heaney – Vice Like Grip
Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits