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Raja Deen Dayal: Artist-Photographer in 19th-Century India

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Robert

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed. September 18, 2013. DR. DEEPALI DEWAN – Senior Curator, ROM, Dept of World Cultures.  For our first meeting of the fall session, we welcome Dr Deepali Dewan. She currently has an exhibition in the ROM on the … Continue reading →

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Timothy O’Sullivan, 19th century photographer

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Robert

Kitchener, August 4, 2013. My oldest daughter, Suzy, reminded me today about this famous Irish-American wet-plate photographer. I was first introduced to O’Sullivan’s beautiful photographs decades ago in the 1970s series of Time-Life books on Photography.  O’Sullivan practiced his art at … Continue reading →

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Foncie’s Photos on Knowledge Network

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Robert

Vancouver, August 5, 2013. I am a regular viewer of this great public broadcaster   (like TVO here in Ontario). For years, BC’s Knowledge Network has promoted scenes around our most westerly province.  This year Knowledge Network has featured Foncie’s Photos. On … Continue reading →

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London before 1927

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Robert

London, May 11, 2013. Thanks to ex-pat Stan White who sent me a note regarding a London Evening Standard article and images from a 1926-7 movie of London, England. The movie uses the experimental Friese-Greene [Frisse-Greene] process. The movie was … Continue reading →

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Robert

New York, June 20, 2013. Ian Ransberry of the Niagara School of Imaging sent this item along via Bob Lansdale. The Lens column of the New York Times reports on the recent discovery of interviews with photographers well known in … Continue reading →

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Antique Photographica – The Collector’s Vision

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Robert

TORONTO, June 12, 2013. Bob Lansdale mentioned that his colleagues Bryan and Page Ginns have recently published a selection of articles in a book titled Antique Photographica, The Collector’s Vision. Both Amazon USA and Amazon Canada have the book available … Continue reading →

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Early Photography in Kingston – from the Daguerreotype to the Postcard

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Robert

TORONTO, May 22, 2013. Dr Jennifer McKendry, our guest speaker back in September of 2002, spoke to the PHSC on the subject of “Early Photography in Kingston”. The second edition of the same titled book earned one of our first … Continue reading →

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What’s in a name, Eh Kodak?

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Robert

TORONTO April 30, 2013. “Dat your Kodak?”, asked Quebecois farmer Plouffe who lived on his farm across the road from my friend Yves Tessier up in rural La Chute Quebec. It was not a Kodak that I had with me … Continue reading →

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George Hunter Memorial

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Robert

Mississauga, April 26, 2013. Carol and I attended the memorial for George Hunter last Saturday along with a large number of other friends and family. A slide show gave attendees a look back over George and his accomplishments. More about George is … Continue reading →

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Newsletter 12-13

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Robert

  Editor David Bridge issues his third newsletter to solid applause! This issue announced the Annual General meeting with a special mystery program, our first Image show on the 28th, Toronto Notes and the Hockey Hall of Fame archives visit, … Continue reading →

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