Bryanna Knotts is the Arthur J. Bell Associate Conservator at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at The University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She holds an M.S. in the Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works and an M.A. in the History of Art & Archaeology from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Before joining the Conservation Department at the CCP, she was the Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During her two-year appointment, she researched analytical and imaging techniques that could be used to monitor the development of silver mirroring on prints in The Met’s collection. 

Katherine “Kappy” Mintie is the Head of Collections at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona where she leads the care of and access to CCP’s internationally recognized collection of photographic fine prints and archives. A historian of photography by training, she specializes in the material history of photography in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has a particular interest in the production of photographic paper. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as The Art Bulletin, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, and The Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. Prior to joining the Center for Creative Photography, she worked at the Lens Media Lab at Yale University, the Harvard Art Museums, and DePauw University. She is also a Senior Fellow in the Society of Critical Bibliography and has taken several courses at Rare Book School. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from UC Berkeley.