Category Archives: activities-other

Telling Stories

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Member Felix Russo advises us that his latest issue of PhotoEd magazine – Spring/Summer 2015 is now on sale in stores and online. This issue features the work of a half dozen photographers as it explains the art of narrative image-making. … Continue reading →

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PhotoED Magazine – Call for Student Submissions

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Member Felix Russo is the owner/editor of PhotoED magazine, an education oriented publication based here in Toronto. Felix asks for student submissions for the Fall 2015 edition of the magazine. Felix says, “Our Fall 2015 issue is a survey … Continue reading →

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WCPHA Newsletter

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Robert

Vancouver. Tom Parkinson from our sister organization on the west coast recently sent out the WCPHA Newsletter for June 2015. The Collector column has a multi page discussion of the Iloca Cameras –  made in Hamburg Germany during the 1940s … Continue reading →

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Cameras everywhere

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. About 35 years ago, I used my Leica to take a few shots of my girls during school concerts. I was the odd man out – few parents had a camera, and those who did had cheap little box … Continue reading →

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The Internet of Things

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. We are hearing more and more about appliances, cars, HVAC, alarms. door locks, phones, and watches, etc. all being interconnected via the internet. For sometime now all these devices have used on board computers (we are very familiar with … Continue reading →

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Toronto Star Photographs on Exhibit

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Our thanks to Bob Lansdale and Boris Spremo. for this post. Boris wrote editor Lansdale about the million negatives and prints – including many photographs by Boris – donated to the Toronto Reference Library. The Library is featuring a … Continue reading →

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Photographers of Ontario

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. John Krug of Ottawa needs your help. John runs the web site Photographers of Ontario. At left is a cabinet card by John Best of Oshawa – but it has no definitive date posted, front or back. John writes, … Continue reading →

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Swann Auction Galleries – photographs tomorrow

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Robert

New York. We get notices from Daile Kaplan at the Swann Galleries in New York about auctions of interest to members. On May 21st, 2015 at i:30 they are holding an auction called Images and Objects: Fine and Vernacular Photographs. … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Bell and the English Channel, Summer 1955

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Anyone living in the 1950s remembers the excitement created by a teen-aged Marilyn Bell when she became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario the late summer of 1954. At left is a Bob Lansdale photograph of young … Continue reading →

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In My View – the photographs of George Dunbar

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Robert

Toronto. Retired industrial photographer George Dunbar is a long time member of the PHSC and a frequent contributor to this website. He applied his art at IBM here in Toronto.  Back in October 2000, George spoke to the PHSC on photography … Continue reading →

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