Author Archives: Robert

made in Japan

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. Back in November, 2019 Celio Barreto spoke on Japanese photography and its history in Japan. Today as our Program Director, Celio has arranged for Kjeld Duits, a Japan based Dutch journalist and Japanese historian to speak to us this … Continue reading →

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down the line

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. One specialty by photographers is photographing trains, lines and train stations. In our January 2016 meeting speaker Ralph Beaumont and his ‘sidekick’ Rod Clarke presented the story of  “Heckman’s Canadian Pacific“. For many decades trains were the prestigious way … Continue reading →

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getting it there

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. I received further material on Women in the Air late on the 5th. George Dunbar sent me this photo and link. It ties in nicely with an American story of similar female pilots ferrying aircraft on the West coast … Continue reading →

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an interesting archive to our east.

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The photo you see is from the Whitney Archive courtesy of the Pickering Library. You can see  many options here. The grid on the photos may be a newspaper halftone or a means to ‘protect’ these images. Associated with … Continue reading →

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flight history

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. I have made earlier posts about how history has been helped by photography. Recently I was reminded of this fact by a note from my good friend George Dunbar. George writes, “Some interesting book titles listed here for those … Continue reading →

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calling all collectors

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Robert

Toronto.  Who would have thought it? This is our 50th year. In the latter part of the 20th century clubs like ours proliferated. Some even became exchange members (we swapped journals rather than paid membership). Once the digital era hit, … Continue reading →

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wild thing

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. One sector of photography is photographs of the wilderness and its inhabitants. At our January, 2012   Toronto meeting, we featured photographer Roy Ramsay and his magazine “Outdoor Photography in Canada“.  Photos of wild animals and their terrain have … Continue reading →

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the tin men

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The advent of the wet plate process provided a means to continue on with the cased images like the daguerreotype, create a negative for paper prints, or expose a black Japanned piece of ‘iron’ to be cased or mailed … Continue reading →

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the time before giant (cheap) TVs

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The devastation of industrial facilities in much of the world brought a new class of adventurer/photographer to the forefront. In parts of the world, It was cheaper to abandon facilities ‘in-place’ rather than remove them after decommission, to repurpose … Continue reading →

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ambrosia

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The “next big thing” in photography, after its announcement,  was the wet plate process developed by Frederick Scott Archer of the UK in 1851. Interestingly, the new process did not ‘catch on’ with all Daguerreotypists immediately. A few years … Continue reading →

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