LOL Cats have been around a long time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Gerry Loban – April 28, 1931 – January 12. 2014

Gerry Loban by Robert Lansdale

Gerry Loban by Robert Lansdale

Toronto, January 15, 2014. We are saddened to report the death of Gerald Loban who served 37 years on the PHSC Executive Committee. Gerry joined in 1977 as member number 0150. He and wife Pauline were Co-Chairmen of the 10th Photographica Fair of 1984.

After the fair, Gerry became the PHSC Librarian on the 1985-87 executive, a position he held until 2013. He often had a table at the PHSC fairs and gave a number of lecture presentations to members of the Society including: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographs, A History of Portraiture, Old Time Photo Studio, and The Leica. He was to be our featured speaker for February 2014 on The Minox Camera. Continue reading

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Newsletter 13-8

Toronto, January 12, 2014. Happy New Year everyone. Editor David Bridge has done another superb job on the January edition of our popular newsletter.

From Left: Front cover,

From Left: Front cover, Mark Singer and his multi format Bolex projector, Awards to Ed Warner  and below, editor Bob Lansdale (centre figures) and below that is another mystery soldier tintype, January speaker Blake Chorley.

In the nine page letter is a notice on our January Speaker and his modern 11×14 tintypes of the rockies, An illustrated report on our December Show and Tell meeting which includes president Mark Singer’s marvellous projector from days past, and many more articles and columns. Just click the icon montage above to read or print this fine pdf newsletter.

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Annual Silent Auction

Members update their bids in the silent auction

Members update their bids in the silent auction

Toronto, December 18, 2013. For the past few years we have used the annual December meeting to conduct a small silent auction. This year was no exception.

As the Show and Tell presentations progress, members quietly viewed and updated their bids.

At the end of the evening the winning bids were announced and members went home with a few new items for their collection and the PHSC had a few more dollars in its treasury!

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