Bust of Daguerre
France, November 18, 1787. Bob Lansdale sent over a note from the Daguerreian Society. The famous creator of the Daguerreotype was born this day 225 years ago! You can see a bit more information on Beverly Wilgus’ post here for M. Daguerre and his famous process announced in January, 1839. The bust of Daguerre is from a flat stereo card in the Daguerreian Society collection.
Sixty Years – a book about Dr Ted Grant and his photographs
Vancouver November 16, 2013. PHSC member Dr Ted Grant sent me a note today mentioning his recent book Sixty Years of Legendary Photojournalism. Written by Thelma Fayle with a forward by two prominent conservatives, ex-Prime Minister Joe Clark and his wife Maureen McTeer. The book is available in either traditional paper format or the new eBook style. Both are Published by Heritage House.
I looked up a cover shot of the book and who was featured, but none other than Liberal ex-Prime Minister, the late Pierre Trudeau sliding down a banister! So if you have tired of the shenanigans here in Toronto (where Ford is a four lettered word…) Continue reading
Toronto November 15, 2013. Editor David Bridge has been at it again to bring you another colourful issue of the newsletter.
From left: Cover of 13-6, Secure the Shadow,fall fair, Bochsler exhibit, Soccer book, news from the net, book reviews, souvenirs of France, and a review of last month’s movie.
This image packed edition brings news of November’s speaker, Shannon Perry, and a review of last month’s movie by your webmaster. There are three photo essays this month: the fall fair, the Tom Bochsler exhibit, and the Daguerreian Society’s 25th anniversary in France. Two book reviews, a couple of book ads for new books, and the usual columns wrap up this issue.
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Soccer: Canada’s National Sport
Celebrate the launch of SOCCER: CANADA’S NATIONAL SPORT, the new book by our (PHSC) past president Les Jones. He says it is, “a remarkable achievement and the first Canadian coffee-table book on The Beautiful Game.” The launch is in the REAL SPORTS BAR located at the Air Canada Centre and takes place at noon on Monday, November 25th.
Les is a former photographer for the Canadian Soccer Association and has covered soccer for over 30 years, supplying articles and photographs to hundreds of books and magazines. He is a director of the Robbie Soccer Tournament and The Soccer Centre as well as chairman of The Soccer Hall of Fame & Museum. Continue reading
TORONTO November 9, 2013. Gary Perry is hosting his latest show on Sunday November 24th, 2013 at his new location: Days Hotel and Conference Centre in Toronto.
The Days Hotel is at 185 Yorkland Bl. (near Highway 404 and Sheppard) – good parking in the hotel lots. Admission only $7 – 10 am to 3 pm. Click image at left for a poster and more details.
Toronto Then and Now
Harry Enchin
Toronto, November 9, 2013. Thanks to members John Linsky and John Allman for bring to our attention Toronto Photographer Harry Enchin. Harry took a selection of Toronto Archives photos and merged portions with his modern colour images photographed at the same spot and time.
Harry uses different materials such as fabrics to display his images. While the show here in the city at the Akasha Art Projects 2013 ended last month, his videos and the Toronto Life article can be seen here or by clicking on the icon.
George Dunbar made similar shots by combining archival images with modern ones so half the image is old and half is a carefully merged new colour image.
George goes on to say, “A number of Enchin’s photo treatments can be found here.
“Another photographer (Alden Cudanin) developed a similar technique shown here.
“My own ‘best effort’ is this one“.
We were formally introduced to this concept of rephotography by Andrzej Maciejewski in March 17, 2010 at a monthly Toronto meeting. Andrzej used slides from two of his books to show Montreal spots photographed a century apart at the same time of day and day of the year which he calculated using shadows in the original image.
Toronto Orangemen Parade 1964
Toronto, November 4, 2013. According to U of T Magazine, the UTAC (University of Toronto Art Centre) is hosting 22 gelatine silver prints of the city taken by photographer Lutz Dille, a German-born photographer and filmmaker who lived in this city for three decades.
The photos are on display until November 14, 2013. They return in the New Year for a second showing. Go to the UTAC site for more details.
Nikon Df from Nikon Rumors
Toronto, November 4, 2013. Member Paul Pasquarello of Buffalo sent me this interesting tidbit this morning on the imminent Nikon full frame small DSLR answer to the recent Sony A7 and A7r announcement. The images come courtesy of the Nikon Rumors site. If you Google “Nikon Df” you will see many other sites and details on this little retro looking camera.
The difference, of course, is the wealth of lenses already available for full frame Nikon cameras – an area where Sony is still catching up.
Shannon Perry by Robert Lansdale
NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, Nov. 20, 2013.
A WORK IN PROGRESS: Shannon Perry.
Ms Perry spoke with us on WWII Colour Photographs in November two years ago (2011 11 19). She is currently working as a photo archivist within the newly formed Archival Description department at Library and Archives, Canada. Shannon holds an M.A. in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University in Toronto and George Eastman House in Rochester N.Y..
The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions. Continue reading
Khumbu Glacier by David Breashears
Toronto, October 28, 2013. Last December Ken Metcalfe out on the West Coast sent me an interesting article from the Washington Post. David Breashears photographed the erosion of the Khumbu glacier (next to Mount Everest) from the inroads of climate change. I saw this first hand a decade ago at the Columbia Icefields in the Canadian Rockies – shocking.
Breashears uses the gigapixel process. The image seems like that created by the Gigapan mechanism as first shown to us on November 19, 2008 in a talk by Felix Russo. The panorama Breashears shot is an astonishing 3.8 billion pixels! Thanks to the Washington Post you can click on the image and go into panorama mode and magnify any portion to see the amazing details. Have a look here for yourself! And think of what we are doing to the environment…
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