Well, we are now on facebook! Our page was developed and is managed by Louise Freyburger, our erstwhile assistant journal editor and researcher.
Check out the latest news and keep in touch with other enthusiasts! You can click here or on the facebook icon at left. I have also added a small linked icon to the right sidebar for easy access to our facebook page as I add posts.
If you need to search for us on facebook, use “PHSC-Photographic” in the search box and that should get us.
TORONTO, February 17th, 2013. The spring Tools of the Trade show for 2013 will be held on Sunday, April 7th, 2013 from 10am to 3pm at the Pickering Recreation Complex, 1867 Valley Farm Road, just 15 minutes east of Toronto. Click here or on the icon at left to see detailed directions.
PHSC Member Ed Warner who is a past president of the PHSC, is now editor of Yesterday’s Tools the official journal of the Tool Group of Canada. The Tool Group of Canada was established about 30 years ago for collectors who specialize in the tools used by the craftsmen of days gone by.
To many of us, a camera is a collectible but it is also a tool used by a professional photographer. Hence a few members of the PHSC are also members of the Tool Group. When he was alive, both my dad and I were members. His interest was mechanics’ tools – the wrenches, tire jacks and other tools used by the automobile mechanic while I was interested in old wood-working tools. Over the years that I was a members of both groups, I attended the occasional Tools of the Trade show where I saw many kinds of tools including cameras and microscopes, not just hand tools.
NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
THE TINTYPE STUDIO
Toronto’s Tintype Studio revisits a historical photographic tradition, creating a unique image on a metal surface. The Tintype Studio revives this process in its traditional context, the outdoor fair, by offering a fun, participatory, and retro take on the instant photograph. Its tintype portrait service and period-style booth give the public a chance to experience a chapter in the history of photography and take a piece home with them. The studio members are Miles Collyer, Stu Sakai, Paul Sergeant and Greg Snow. Join us tonight and discovery beauty of this old process that dates back to the wet-plate era and has survived in the hands of these modern day Tintype photographers.
The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions.
I think you will agree that our new editor of the newsletter, David Bridge, did himself well with this extravagant and colourful eleven page issue.
Newsletter 12-10. From left: cover, a rare hand coloured carte de visite, Bob Lansdale at the December show and tell, veterans of 1812-14 war years later (two images), a huge copy camera, possibly the last photo at Markland Woods, and a historic DSLR donated to George Eastman House.
The issue announces this month’s speaker, PHSC member and article contributor, Professor Lindsay Lambert of Ottawa and his popular Magic Lantern Show. Mark Singer, back from a visit down under reviews the December Show and Tell. Continue reading
Gary Perry is hosting his latest show Sunday January 27, 2013 at the usual location:
The Toronto Don Valley Hotel at 1250 Eglinton Avenue East
enter off Wynford Drive – free parking in Hotel lot.
Admission only $7 – 10 am to 3 pm
Click HERE for more information.
NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed., January 16th, 2013
PROFESSOR LAMBERT and his Magic Lantern Show.
Have you ever seen a magic lantern in action? No? Well come out and welcome Ottawa’s famous lanternist as he delights in taking you back to the days of the magic lantern. Professor Lambert was featured last year in an Ottawa Citizen column. Since his last PHSC show a dozen+ years ago in May of 2001, he has updated his talk and has many new slides to show and delight us all.
The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions.
Toronto Ontario, May 4, 2013 All Day.
Our GTCCC (Greater Toronto Council of Camera Clubs) representative Felix Russo announced that the GTCCC is hosting an all day seminar at Centennial College on Carlaw Avenue in the east end of Toronto. The day is devoted to improving our skills in using the camera (rather than collecting the instrument). For details you can visit the GTCCC page or contact Harvey Rogers.
Well, our new email editor, David Bridge, is trying his wings under the firm guidance of journal editor Lansdale. David has done a remarkable job with this eleven page extravaganza!
From Left: Cover, William Notman (revisited), detail of Curio, Wooden boxes and Kodaks, Curio from the past, The “Whatisit” camera identified. And along the bottom are a number of wooden boxes that contained the earliest Kodak cameras.
First, we announce our popular December Show and Tell meeting, followed by my review of Jim Trautman’s engaging talk on the iconic Turofsky Brothers Continue reading
Okay everyone! Check your mail box. Members will have issue 38-3 this week or next – it was mailed December 11th. Not a member? Join now using the convenient Paypal button on the right sidebar of the home page.
From Left: Cover 38-3, Graflex Tropical, Brownell Factory, Colour insert of old Kodaks, Ross camera, and TV’s Pawnathon Series star John Kantymir.
This is our second issue with a colour insert. The insert shows many of the well known and some hard to find old Kodak cameras. Continue reading
James Trautman
by Ed Warner
James Trautman was born and grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey not far from the Newark Airport. He last spoke to us back on January 20, 2010. At that time he talked about the golden age of the Pan American Clippers based on his book on the famous flying boats (now in its second printing and widely distributed) This time he talks about the famous Turofsky brothers who covered the sports scene and day to day life in Toronto in much of the first half of the last century mostly from the Alexandra Studio that Lou bought and renamed. Continue reading
EVENTS
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Stan White – Poems & Photos
Mise Au Point – sur la photographie Quebecois
