Collected - 006 Framing Memory - Rare World War One Portraits
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial
English - June 14, 2019 03:25 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHistory Education australianwarmemorial collected fromawhispertoabang Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.