Patrick C Ravines

Director and Associate Professor
Art Conservation Department
Buffalo State College
United States of America

Academician Chemistry
Biography

Patrick Ravines became the director of Buffalo State’s renowned Art Conservation Department in July 2010. Ravines is the fourth director of the art conservation program since its founding in 1970. Ravines has experience as a conservator, researcher, and administrator. Before joining Buffalo State, he served as senior project conservator and research fellow at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, now George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation (2005 - 2007) at the Eastman House, and, for more than a decade, chief of the Conservation Office, Bahá’í World Centre, Haifa, Israel. He holds advanced degrees in chemistry, library science, and library and archives conservation.

Research Intrest

Chemistry, Library science, and Library and Archives conservation

List of Publications
Ravines P, Baum KG, Cox NA, Welch S, Helguera M. Multimodality imaging of daguerreotypes and development of a registration program for image evaluation. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. 2014 Feb 1;53(1):19-32.
Ravines P, Li L, McElroy R. An electron microscopy study of the image making process of the daguerreotype, the 19th century’s first commercially viable photographic process. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology. 2016 May 1;60(3):30504-1.
Ravines P, Li L, Chan L, McElroy R. Some Science Behind the Daguerreotype: Nanometer and Sub-micrometer Realities On and Beneath the Surface. InNanoscience and Cultural Heritage 2016 (pp. 123-158). Atlantis Press.

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