Toronto. My friend George Dunbar sent me this interesting link to a narrative called Photography on a Silver Plate. The narrative includes a video using historic equipment to take and develop a daguerreotype, stereo photos, typical stills, and even a couple of stereo nude studies.
The narrative explains the importance of the process and its impact on the society of the day. The first years were spent in experimentation and rapid technical improvements to the process and equipment (i.e. much faster lenses) with the goal to make taking and processing daguerreotypes a commercially viable business.
Toronto. A recent PHSC donation was made to the Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) to help it bring down south the results of youth photography in Canada’s far north. The north west of our country has spotty internet at best so the MIA decided to ship a selection of photographs to Toronto by air. The youths of our North West Territories took the photos mostly with Canon Rebel DSLRs plus the odd Nikon camera and Apple iPod Touch over three days. The MIA graciously hosted a monthly meeting and a talk by its Collections Manager Lauren Williams.
