Template for interviews, version 1
These are the topics of the questions that I want to ask, and a first draft of questions:
Philosophy and ethics
1. How do you define conservation treatment of photographs?
2. In a general sense, what is the goal of treatment?
3. What are the general principles that guide treatment practice?
4. Do you consider that these general principles are applicable to all types of treatment?
Current Status
5. What determines the need for treatment? (in a museum, a private lab, an archive)
6. Are there other factors that influence in the selection of treatments that are proposed/requested and then performed?
7. How does the value of a photograph affect treatment?
8. How does market affect treatment?
--How do you assess the treatment risk against its potential benefit?
Progress and Transformation (History)
9. What is your observation of the field in terms of treatment? How has it progressed or transformed?
--What is your opinion about "chemical treatments" of photographs? Can they be performed, or why shouldn't they be performed?
Education
10. How did you learn treatment?
11. Do you consider that treatment proficiency is central to the competences of a photograph conservator? Why?
12. How can we gain/assure treatment proficiency?
Future
13. In terms of treatment, what are the major challenges that the field faces?
Philosophy and ethics
1. How do you define conservation treatment of photographs?
2. In a general sense, what is the goal of treatment?
3. What are the general principles that guide treatment practice?
4. Do you consider that these general principles are applicable to all types of treatment?
Current Status
5. What determines the need for treatment? (in a museum, a private lab, an archive)
6. Are there other factors that influence in the selection of treatments that are proposed/requested and then performed?
7. How does the value of a photograph affect treatment?
8. How does market affect treatment?
--How do you assess the treatment risk against its potential benefit?
Progress and Transformation (History)
9. What is your observation of the field in terms of treatment? How has it progressed or transformed?
--What is your opinion about "chemical treatments" of photographs? Can they be performed, or why shouldn't they be performed?
Education
10. How did you learn treatment?
11. Do you consider that treatment proficiency is central to the competences of a photograph conservator? Why?
12. How can we gain/assure treatment proficiency?
Future
13. In terms of treatment, what are the major challenges that the field faces?
