London UK – Then and Now

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Robert
London, England from the Telegraph

London, England from the Telegraph

Toronto, February 26, 2014. The “Then and Now” theme appears to be a popular way to show city street changes over the decades. Each picture shows a version in black and white (old) and a version in colour (new), often with the two images cleverly merged showing part of the old and part of the new.

Photographer George Dunbar sent me a note today that the Telegraph in London, England has published a few London street scenes using this theme. Take a look here on the Telegraph website! Remember to click the buttons above the picture to see the next one.  For even more pictures there is an app called Streetmuseum. Check it out. Thanks George!

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Newsletter 13-9

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Robert

Toronto, February 15, 2014. Editor David Bridge has been up late crafting the latest of his pdf newsletter, another 12 page colourful extravaganza. Click the picture below to read this latest issue.

From Left: Cover of 13-9,

From Left: Cover of 13-9, Binoculars gal and 40th anniversary notice, Our January Speaker Blake Chorley, cover of our very first journal issue, news of links to the oldest photography journal (RPS in England), the Getty journal, the late Gerry Loban, and notice of our auction next month (showing Lincoln Ross at last year’s event).

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Blake Chorley visits the Rockies

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Robert

 

Blake and his tintypes - portrait by Robert Lansdale

Blake and his tintypes – portrait by Robert Lansdale

Toronto, February 11, 2014. Our January speaker was photographer Blake Chorley. Blake embarked last summer (2013) on a driving vacation in the Canadian Rockies with a big difference. Blake took along a huge 11 x 14 view camera, two brass wide-angle lenses, a darkroom, and the necessary wet plate chemistry to take and develop 11 x 14 tintypes and glass plates. This is his story as told to the PHSC members January 15th, 2014.  

January’s meeting started off the 40th Anniversary of the PHSC with a perfect topic – wet plate photography. Blake Chorley has always liked landscape photography. Blake lived in Alberta for a number of years where he “fell in love” with the vast vistas of the Wild Rose province. He went back last summer and took 11 x 14 landscape tintypes of the Rockies using an old view camera. Blake is a commercial photographer in Toronto where he spends time indoors at studio shots and image development. Continue reading →

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LOL Cats have been around a long time

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Robert
From Tristin Column in the National Post

From Tristin Hopper’s column in the National Post

Toronto February 4, 2014. Thanks again to George Dunbar for suggesting these links to old Canadian photographs. The photos are from the National Post in a column written by Tristin Hopper of Vancouver.

Tristin’s bio says: “Tristin Hopper is an award-winning reporter working for the National desk of the National Post. Originally from Victoria, BC, the first years of Tristin’s journalism career were spent in Whitehorse, where he was a reporter for the Yukon News and later an associate editor for Up Here and Up Here Business magazine. In between, he has made his living as a freelancer, with his writing appearing everywhere from Reader’s Digest to the in-flight magazine of a B.C. helicopter airline. He is based in Vancouver.”

Click the following National Post links for Tristin’s old Canadian photos with dates and cut lines:
Turn of the Century LOL Cats.
Brawlers, Daredevils and Rogues.
Glamourous Ladies, and Pin-up Girls.

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Auction March 23, 2014

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Robert

Bookmark-Auction-March_2014_Single-smToronto, February 3, 2014. Doug Napier announces the next PHSC auction this coming March 23rd, 2014 at the Legion Hall in Long Branch just west of the foot of Brown’s Line (Highway 27). This is a very popular auction featuring both usable and collectable equipment.

Click on the icon at left to read and download the Auction bookmark sic describes the date, times, map, consignment goods, etc.

For more details, contact our vice-president Doug Napier at auction@phsc.ca.

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To the moon, Alice

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Robert
Apollo Hassleblad

Apollo 15’s Moon Hasselblad

Toronto, February 2, 2014. For those of you who watch television these days, many of the old serials run on some channels. Ralph Kramden and his wife Alice (Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows) were favourites as the Honeymooners when I was a kid. The title of this post was one of Ralph’s regular rejoiners when wife Alice upstaged him.

The other day, Russ Forfar owner of Kominek Camera repair, sent me a note on a Hasselblad that will be auctioned off shortly. Not your ordinary Hasselblad but the very one that saw use ON THE MOON by Jim Irwin with the Apollo project. About 350 shots were taken with it by Irwin, 299 on the moon. WestLicht will be auctioning the camera on March 22, 2014 in Austria.

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Leica celebrates 100 years

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Robert
Leica I in 1925

Leica Camera

Toronto, February 2, 2014. Thanks to George Dunbar for reminding me with this article from The Guardian in the UK that the industry changing Leica was born 100 years ago last month on January 21, 1914.

When Oskar Barnack first constructed his camera photographers used much larger machines and contact printed their negatives. Barnack used the little camera around Wetzlar, Germany (home of the Leitz Optical House) to take pictures of his boss, town floods, and soldiers on the eve of WWI wearing their bayonet style helmets. The grandson of Ernst Leitz used an UR Leica to take street scenes in New York City during a vacation visit the summer of 1914 while the rumbles of the great war in Europe were growing ever louder (my books are buried at the moment so I cannot show the photographs which are generally common to various Leica manuals and references). Continue reading →

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Photographic Canadiana 39-4

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Robert

Toronto, January 31, 2014. It’s coming, it’s coming. Editor Bob Lansdale has completed the last issue before our 40th anniversary year begins (how time flies…) and will have it ready to mail shortly.

From left: cover of 39-4,

From left: cover of 39-4, sledge lowered over hummocks in the Arctic, a CDV by Luigi Fiorillo, book about finding Scott’s lost photographs, Riga Minox, Kodak at the North Pole, John Morden and Shannon Perry at the November meeting, and John Linsky at the December Show and Tell.

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Report on December 2013 Show and Tell

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Robert
Clint officiates the Evening

Clint officiates the evening

I was a bit late arriving at the December meeting but I had an enjoyable evening. Doug Napier’s wife provided some home baked cookies – delicious! Oscar Li attended to the coffee machine in the absence of Bob Wilson and after a few other events, the Show and Tell began with Clint officiating the evening.

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Process of Selection: Katie Addleman

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Robert
Katie Addleman by Marcos Armstrong

Katie Addleman by Marcos Armstrong

NEXT TORONTO MEETING:
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Katie Addleman is a PhD student in the University of Toronto’s Department of Art. She has assisted with several major exhibitions including Félix Thiollier. Photographies (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2012) and Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2013). In 2013 she won a Western Magazine Award (Gold Award) for her writing on the visual arts, which appears regularly in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and ELLE Canada. Katie holds an MA in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University.

Ms Addleman will be speaking on her thesis, Process of Selection: Édouard Baldus, The New Louvre Commission Photographs, and Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries, which was selected by the PHSC committee as the recipient for this year’s PPCM Thesis Award.

The public is welcome.  Go to our Programs page for times and directions.

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