Alisha Chipman has over 25 years of experience in Photography and 15 years in Photograph Conservation with a background in Fine Arts and Art History.

Alisha is currently Senior Photograph Conservator at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Previous conservation experience includes work for the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Paul Messier LLC, MoMA, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Morgan Library & Museum. She received a Master of Science degree in Art Conservation with a specialization in photographic materials from the University of Delaware. Alisha is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She serves on the FAIC Collaborative Workshops in Photograph Conservation advisory committee and the Organization for International Standards (ISO) Technical Committee 42: Photography.

Alisha is passionate about the history of photography. She enjoys teaching technical history, process identification, and preservation of photographic materials from daguerreotypes to digital prints. She has published research on Paul Strand’s platinum prints, hand-painted tintypes, and treatment techniques for seperating blocked negatives. Alisha orchestrated the FAIC symposium Photomechanical Prints: History, Technology, Aesthetics, and Use. She is now conducting research and writing a book on photomechanical prints.

Alisha enjoys all of the arts and spends time practicing photography, drawing, painting, wrtiting, reading, dancing, listening to music, visiting museums, and attending performances.