[OR_Archaeology] OAS mtg Jan 5 features James Henderson

[Susan White]

The January 5, 2010 lecture sponsored by the Oregon Archaeological
Society will feature James Henderson, a Registered Biological
Photographer who specializes in difficult imaging problems associated
with science and medicine. His talk, “Indirect Preservation of
Cultural Artifacts” will describe some of the photographic approaches
that can be employed to record faded prehistoric artifacts, such as
pictographs (rock paintings), and historic artifacts, such as emigrant
inscriptions along the Oregon Trail, and historic documents, such as old
family bibles. 

Using photographic techniques, such as cross-polarized light, digital
capture with subsequent pigment enhancement, and infrared photography,
Henderson has been able to bring otherwise hard to photograph images
into vivid view or reveal pigment outlines invisible to the eye.

Henderson is the author of a number of technical articles dealing with
advanced photographic applications, and is the recipient of numerous
grants and awards, including the 1999 International Lennart Nilsson
Award in Photography.

The presentation is at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) at
7:45 PM, and is free and open to the public. The talk is preceded at 7
PM by a general business meeting, which is also open to the public 

See www.oregonarchaeological.org or call 503-727-3507 for more
information.