Kodak #9 on the Move

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Robert
PHSC 25th cake at Kodak Heights in 1999

PHSC 25th cake at Kodak Heights in 1999

Toronto. Last weekend saw the last remaining building at the old Kodak Heights carefully moved a couple of hundred feet to allow Metrolinx to build a new foundation. CBC also showed the move which used special electrical trucks and wheels moving a slow eight inches per minute.

The new foundation will become the St Dennis station on the Eglinton LRT. Once built, the building will travel back over the new foundation to become part of the Mt Dennis station.

When Kodak lost out to the digital revolution, all but building #9 housing the auditorium, museum and front entrance, were demolished. Building #9 suffered graffiti and internal damage. It was totally gutted before being moved this August. Continue reading →

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Fall Camerama Show on September 25, 2016

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Robert
Leica M6 - Click camera for Show Flyer

Leica M6 – Click camera for Show Flyer

Toronto. Member Gary Perry has been running the Camerama shows for many years. Here is his notice on the show next month:

Please be advised of our next camera show is coming up on September 25th. It will be held again at the Toronto Delta East Hotel (2035 Kennedy rd & 401). The show will run from 9:30am – 2:30pm. Show Flyer is attached [click the camera icon at left].

Parking is FREE!

Here are the location details:
Delta Toronto East  (Kennedy Rd. & 401)
2035 Kennedy Road
Toronto, Ontario  M1T 3G2
Hotel Phone:416-299-1500

For Directions: www.deltahotels.com/Hotels/Delta-Toronto-East

Continue reading →

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Siri’s ancestors

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Robert
Ethel "Jane" Cain courtesy Site Point

Ethel “Jane” Cain courtesy Site Point

Toronto. Thanks to Alex Walker and Australia’s Sitepoint Design for this note about early voice powered UI systems. In 1936 the first automated talking clock called TIM was created in the UK. Ms Ethel (Jane) Cain was the first voice of the clock from 1936 until 1963 – winning the audition of some 15,000 UK Postal employee telephone operators.

After Apple’s ads and the Big Bang Theory TV comedy show everyone knows about Siri and her marvellous ability to find information you request of her by voice.

Sitepoint was recommended to me by my eldest daughter as a source for good modern reference books on topics related to programming and the web.

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Postcard Show September 25, 2016

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Robert
Allandale-RR-Resaurant-card-sm

GTR Station Allandale (Barrie) Ontario c1910

Toronto. Our programme chairman, Les Jones, sent me a request to announce the Postcard and Image show coming next month in Dundas, Ontario near Hamilton. A few years back Ed Warner and I attended the Toronto Postcard Club show up at Humber to display some old cameras and answer any questions. I bought a few photo postcards at the show.

Here is the notice from Les Jones for the show next month:

Attention IMAGE DEALERS/Collectors

PHSC members are invited to participate in the next Golden Horseshoe Post Card Club sale, selling vintage images. This will be the first time that anyone other than postcard sellers have been allowed to participate, and there is very limited space.

SUNDAY, September 25, 2016
Dundas Lions Club Memorial Hall
10 Market St South, Dundas. 10am-4pm.

Post Card dealers are being specially asked to bring real photo postcards and any vintage photographs they have acquired. Cost is $80 for 8’ table with a back-up table behind. Application forms are available from Les Jones, 416 691-1555 or lesjones.covershots@gmail.com. Continue reading →

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Happy 25th Birthday WWW

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Robert
courtesy Sylvia Garza

courtesy Sylvia Garza

Toronto. The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business for Wednesday, August 24th showed a nice graph of the exponential growth of web sites since the World Wide Web (WWW) was created 25 years ago.

My thanks to Sylvia Garza for the birthday announcement icon which she posted on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the WWW.

When we joined the web just over 20 years ago there were a minuscule number of web sites. Today that number well exceeds 800 million on its way to over a billion sites. Happy Birthday indeed to Mr Tim Berners-Lee’s wonderful creation!

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Daguerreian Society Pre-Conference Symposium.

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Robert
Daguerreian Society Pre-Conference Symposium in NYC

Daguerreian Society Pre-Conference Symposium in NYC

Toronto. Our Journal Editor Bob Lansdale sent me an email last month on July 13th announcing a special Pre-Conference Symposium on October 20, 2016 in NYC.

The message is from the Daguerreian Society’s Business Director, Diane Filippi. The Conference title is “How the 19th-century Formed the Basis for All Subsequent Art Photography, Including Contemporary“.

The title is quite a mouthful – both members and non members are invited to attend. You can click here for the notice and full details.

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Dave Tinder of Michigan

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Robert
Dave Tinder byDoug Aikenhead

Dave Tinder byDoug Aikenhead

Toronto. Last month on July 20th Bob Lansdale sent me this note he received from Cindy Motzenbecker of the MiPHS.

“Our good friend and photography collector Dave Tinder passed away peacefully early this morning.

“His major work, the Directory of Early Michigan Photographers, was published in 2013 on the website of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and is available to all at http://clements.umich.edu/eadadd/tinder_directory.pdf.”

Dave is shown in the above photo taken recently by Doug Aikenhead.

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A Canadian Homage to Frank’s “The Americans”

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Robert
Mayor Charlotte Whitton

Mayor Charlotte Whitton

Toronto. When I read my Globe Monday, I saw a book review of “The Canadians: Photographs from The Globe and Mail Archives”. James Adams wrote the review (my thanks to George Dunbar who found this link) and compared the book to Robert Frank’s pivotal book “the Americans” published in France in 1958. One photo shows Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton sitting for O Canada in refusal to recognize the song as our new national anthem.

“The Canadians is published by Bone Idle Books and features many of the images shown recently in Toronto at CONTACT in the Globe exhibition “Cutlines”. If you missed it last  spring, a travelling exhibition called “Cutline” will open in Ottawa at the Canadian Photography Institute in the National Gallery this October 28, 2016 (The Globe says the opening is October 21st).

Bone Idle books is a division of the Archive of Modern Conflict founded by David Thomson (the family owns both Reuters and the Globe and Mail). AMC purchased an extensive collection of Daguerreian memorabilia some months back. Members of both the PHSC and the Daguerreian Society are aware of the AMC and some of its holdings.

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Luce Lebart heads the CPI in Ottawa

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Robert
Luce Lebart courtesy of ARTFORUM

Luce Lebart courtesy of ARTFORUM

Toronto.  James Adams mentioned in Spotlight (Globe and Mail) Wednesday that Luce Lebart will head the new Canadian Photography Institute (CPI) which was created last November 1st. The web site ARTFORUM made the announcement last month on July 15th.

Ms Lebart of France is both a photography expert and an author. She was educated in Paris and Arles. Before joining the CPI she was the director of collections and curator at Societe francais de photographie in Paris.

She will oversee the CPI’s first two exhibitions, Cutworks from the Globe and Mail and Josef Sudek whose work we saw earlier in a presentation by Maia Sutnik of the AGO in May 2005.

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First photographer in Space – in 1961

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Robert
Titov withCamera

Titov with Camera

Toronto. Nearly thirteen years before the PHSC held its first meeting, a Russian called Gherman Titov was the first man to take photographs in space in August 6, 1961. He was carried aloft and circled the Earth in the Soviet ship Vostok 2.

Thanks to George Dunbar for this article.

George found it on Phogotraphy (yes that is the correct spelling…).

Read the article for more details.

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