somewhere, over the rainbow …

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Robert

Color Your Life exhibit – courtesy of GADCOLLECTION Galeri

Toronto. This post is for image collectors. If you collect Americana photos, modern works, or otherwise, do take a look at the Paris Galerie of GADCOLLECTION.

The image here is the Biden/Harris Inauguration taken by Stephen Wilkes. It is one in the series on exhibit in Paris called ‘Day to Night’ that runs from Nov 9, 2021 (now) to January 9, 2022.

Have a look here or pop over to the City of Light. You just might add some photographs to your collection!

The post title is that famous 1939 song, sung by Judy Garland in the movie, “The Wizard of Oz“. I saw it (nearly a decade after it was made) in a second run theatre in a small Canadian town.

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have you ever heard of typologies?

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Robert

PhotoED magazine cover for Winter 2021-2022

Toronto. Rita Godlevskis is just a wealth of ideas, keeping  PhotoED both current and interesting with her savvy and creativity! The latest issue (Winter 2021/2022) is on the newsstands and in the mail. And there is that word again ‘TYPOLOGIES’ right there on the cover!

The above link shows this issue’s contents and has a call for submissions for the first issue in 2022. If you haven’t read an issue, you can subscribe for a hardcopy and peek at older issues online. Visit Rita’s PhotoED site now and scroll down to the bottom. Under ONLINE you will see DIGITAL EDITION. Click that and enjoy the Fall 2021 issue.

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burning bright – Lehr estate auction in Ohio Nov 20th

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Robert

Very Rare Antique Folmer & Schwing 5X7″ large format stereo camera . 10.5″ long x 7.5″ high – at Burns Auction this Saturday.

Toronto.  I got a note recently from an associated image and camera club – The Daguerreian Society. The estate (at least the photography portion) of their late member, Lewis Lehr, will go under the hammer this Saturday.

The email poster says in part, “Cameras and Images from the estate of Lewis Lehr are selling at 1pm November 20th in Ohio. This is a sale not to be missed. Over 350 items including ephemera he collected over the last 50 years.

“Lewis was a member of The Daguerreian Society since its inception. He  started collecting photography in the late 1960s with many road trips through Ohio searching for rare items.”  Click on the Burns Auction address below to see the lots. Read carefully the pick up address and added charges.

Note that the lots are mostly estimated at a very wide range of USD – not a reliable indicator of value (caveat emptor). Also, the auction house lists some items from previous auctions below the Lehr estate items on each page.

Burns Auction
3136 Kingsdale Center
Columbus, OH 43221

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shining a light on an iconic American photographer

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Robert

Winston Link and George Thom with Part of Equipment Used in making Night Scenes with Synchronizer Flash, 1956 – courtesy of Jackson Fine Art

Toronto. O Winston Link lived from late 1914 to early 2001. A number of his photographs are offered by the Atlanta, GA gallery, Jackson Fine Art.

George Dunbar, also a photographer (and a retired industrial cinematographer) , saved Link’s obituary. George writes, “It seems that I’ve had this obit in my files for 20 years…….completely forgotten. Winston Link was the world famous photographer of trains in America. The tragic later years of his life were depicted in a documentary film, The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover.”

Train fanciers and night photo enthusiasts alike will enjoy the saga and photographs of an iconic American photographer and his associates. Thanks to my good friend and fellow photo historian (amateur in my case), George Dunbar for saving Mr Link’s obituary these many years..

 

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scoring in the frozen north

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Robert

Hockey team, Dawson City, 1905

Toronto. Brrrr, it was real cold in 1905. Up in Dawson City, the guys put down their sticks and stopped flinging the rubber disk around long enough to let a local snap-shooter take this group photograph.

David Shribman, published it in his review of Tim Falconer’s book. “Klondikers“, in the Globe and Mail’s October 7, 2021 edition. These guys played hockey as the Dawson City Nuggets and came to Ottawa to try winning Lord Stanley’s cup.

Shribman begins his review with this paragraph which nicely summarizes the team’s spirit, “If it is not the destination but the journey that matters, then consider the voyage a rag-tag assemblage undertook 116 years ago to Ottawa from Dawson City: on foot, on bicycles, on a narrow-gauge railway, on a steamer ship and on a dream and a prayer, across 5,630 kilometres by land and 1,600 by sea, all to lose two Stanley Cup matches of a primitive sport that nonetheless transformed the notion of hockey night in Canada into a national rite.”

Exciting stuff even today. Read the rest of the review, and if you can, grab the book (buy it or borrow it). My thanks to good friend, George Dunbar. for sharing this piece of Canadiana with us.

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remembering Korda Camera Montreal

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Robert

Baby taken in Toronto summer 1972 with new M4

Toronto. I spent some time researching alternative Leica camera models in the early 1970s. After settling on the M4 as the best offered, I searched the camera shops for one (newer models were out by then and any new M4s were hard to find) and at a good price. I ended up at Korda (I think it was on Sherbrooke near rue Guy).

I quickly discovered the clerk knew less about the cameras he sold than me. He tried to sell me the lens hood as an extra until I pulled out a March 1971 catalogue and showed him that item 11 309 was the lens and its hood! He had confused the hood with the replacement hood item 12 504.

I was happy to head home with a Leica M4 body and a Summicron 5cm lens and hood. The body in chrome trim and the lens with black anodized trim – and the black hood. Camera body and lens/hood came in two separate boxes. My goal for the M4 was to photograph my second baby girl reliably indoors, something a bit uncertain with my aging eyes and the Exakta.

 

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Andrew Wright – November PHSC Talk

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Robert
Toronto. Ottawa-based professor and photographer Andrew Wright in Conversation. An award-winning  professor of Visual Art in the department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, Wright explores the contradictions between photography’s promises and failures, highlighting the role reproductive technology plays in mediating the natural world

Join us on November 17th, 2021 at 8 pm (we begin around 7:30 with a social get together – all welcome) via ZOOM. Read the poster below for more information. This poster was created by our PHSC News editor Sonja Pushchak and appears in the current issue.

Go to Eventbrite for free tickets or to program@phsc.ca with any questions.

Nov 2021 – Conversation with Andrew Wright

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the faraway hills

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Robert

Cologne 1932, The Varnisher by Augst Sander

Toronto. The OstLicht Gallery sends us this message via email. “We would like to draw your attention once again to the 24th OstLicht Photo Auction, which will take place on 19 November 2021 at 5 pm at the OstLicht Gallery.

“With the selection personally compiled by collector and gallery owner Peter Coeln, we have succeeded in covering a particularly broad spectrum this time. Both experienced collectors and newcomers will find numerous icons of photography as well as many unknown works to discover among the 180 selected lots.

“Numerous rarities will be auctioned, including works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, August Sander, Robert Frank, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Heinrich Kühn, Franz Hubmann and VALIE EXPORT. Please find a detailed description of these and other highlights in our press kit.

“Auction participants can not only bid live on site at OstLicht Gallery, but can also submit written bids in advance and bid by phone or via a number of external online auction platforms. A link to the live streaming will be published on our website immediately before the auction.

“PREVIEW
from 11 November 2021
daily 2–6 pm
or by appointment
at OstLicht Gallery
(Absberggasse 27, A-1100 Vienna)

“From Monday, 15. November Peter Coeln and our other experts will be available for personal consultation.”

So all you collectors who concentrate on images, here is a chance to get some authentic prints for your collection! Please note, the title of this post is part of a line in the old (1946) song, “The Old Master Painter“.   I was in grade 7 when I first heard the lyrics and song – and certainly NOT sung by ol’ Blue Eyes who sings it here!

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PHSC News newsletter for November 2021

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Robert

Minolta CLE in Gold

Toronto. At right top of page 1 in November’s PHSC News newsletter is the famous Minolta CLE. The camera design was also badged as a Leica CL. Leica justified the difference in retail price as the result of a more rigorous testing scheme. Few cameras were made with the gold finish. The CLE accepted most Leitz M-mount lenses and vice versa.

November is nearing its mid point, and our editor, Sonja, and her team have produced this issue for you as the COVID-19 fourth wave seems to be increasing once again. Up here, the changes have been somewhat eased seemingly by our vaccination levels and close adherence to common sense guidelines. Children under 12, and of school age, will soon be vaccinated. The third shot for all who received the first two is well underway.

This issue of PHSC News (21-05) has many thought provoking articles as usual – short, crisp, and provocative. Please take a few moments and read them to ease any remaining  symptoms of virus lethargy.

Page 1 under “Levitation Girls” reviews the works of Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi with Princess Mako of Japan. Page 2 in “PHSC PRESENTS (virtually)” suggests what to do when the leafbergs advance. On page 3, under PHOTO BOOK 101 is, “Outdoor Eating Hasn’t Always Been a Picnic“,  about picnics with a photo from TPL’s Baldwin Collection. On page 4 is the column, WOMEN and WAR and its article, “How Photography Changed War Perspectives in Vietnam“; while page 5 takes a poke at young Edward Rogers who recently won back control of his dad’s communications empire.

Page 6 addresses “Photography for Weightlifters: the Mamiya RB67” in David’s EQUIPMENT REVIEW.  Then on page 7, John Morden  selects a trio of WEB LINKS.

Page 8 features a poster on our forth-coming ZOOM event  “A Conversation with Andrew Wright”. Andrew is a ‘multidisciplinary photographer’ who teaches at the University of Ottawa. We see our friends Ivy & Izzy, once again on page 9, this time trading quips on the topic  “When Comedy Gets Serious“. And page 10 has John’s compilation of shows, events, and exhibitions of interest to collectors/photographers everywhere.

P.S. As usual, every link shown in the newsletter is a hot link just waiting for your click!

P.P.S. You can visit this issue by clicking here, or by g0ing to the menu item NEWSLETTER at the top of the page. There is a drop down menu that takes you to older issues dating back a couple of decades to the very beginning.

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George snaps Manitoba

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Robert

George Hunter Photograph in Manitoba c1940s from CHPF archives

Toronto. The ladies from the CHPF spoke to us recently via ZOOM. The other day, our society president, Clint Hryhorijiw kindly copied me on this email from Nicole Plaskett sent to him and Celio Barreto, our programme and ZOOM expert.

Nicole writes, “Good Morning!

“I hope that this email finds you both well.  I just wanted to let you know, in case your membership may be interested – that we just released over 1200 images by George Hunter of Manitoba during the 1940’s.  Most are from his newspaper editorial work – and some of the images are just amazing!

“The link to the Blog post is here: https://www.thechpf.com/blog/digitizing-the-photography-of-george-hunter-manitoba-1940s

“There are 50 selected images on our website under Photo Gallery: https://www.thechpf.com/photo-gallery and the entire collection is available on our Digital Collections page: https://digitalcollections.thechpf.com/

“I hope you get some time to browse the images.  Please note that we also moved offices as of the end of October.  Our new address is below.  Come and visit sometime!

“Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation
2227 South Millway, Suite 200
Mississauga, Ontario  L5L 3R6
www.thechpf.com“

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