iPhoto Central: New Nonprofit to Preserve Endangered Legacy of 20th-Century Photography Launched by Dixon and Gaines

from the E-Photo Newsletter, Issue #227, August 22, 2016

Penelope Dixon and Karen Gaines have launched a nonprofit organization, the Photography Collections Preservation Project (PCPP), dedicated to the preservation of important mid- and late-20th-century photography for future generations. The organization has an urgent task: to make sure that important but increasingly vulnerable photographic archives are placed with the best, most appropriate U.S. institutions, and made easily available to scholars, students, the general public and future generations.

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Photograph Magazine, "In the Mix: New Preservation Organization"

August 2016

Penelope Dixon and Karen Gaines have founded the Photography Collections Preservation Project, whose mission is to ensure the preservation and accessibility for future study of photography collections by facilitating their placement with the best U.S. institutions. Dixon is the president of Penelope Dixon and Associates, appraisers; and Gaines is the former picture editor at Time magazine.