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...sassy old saying “Take a picture, it’ll last longer” never rang truer than it does today, as a $2.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation breathes new life into Harvard University Library’s (HUL) efforts to preserve its massive collection of photographs...
According to a Monday press release published by HUL, the Mellon grant will allow the library’s Weissman Preservation Center to hire a senior photograph conservator and a slew of specialized restoration technicians—all positions that did not exist before the grant was awarded...
...Mellon money, $1.25 million will go into an endowment fund to support the new staff, while the remaining $850,000 will go toward “ongoing cataloging and rehousing initiatives” for the 7.5 million photographs in Harvard’s holdings...
...Mellon Foundation, which has awarded more than $10 million to photo conservation projects in America since 1997, started its relationship with the Weissman Center in 2001 when it paid for a round of inventory and status checks administered in all 47 of the University’s photo repositories...
...reached by Bowen and Shulman. He went further, questioning whether the impact that the Game of Life had on the Ivy presidents was based on the evidence presented in the work or whether it had something to do with Bowen’s position as the head of the Mellon Foundation—an organization that gives hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Ivy institutions. Could Bowen’s influence over Ancient Eight schools have less to do with the content of his works and more to do with the power of his office? Maybe...