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The BIG One – PHSC Fall Fair Oct 27, 2013

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Robert

WOODBRIDGE October 27, 2013. We will be holding our fall fair once again at the Soccer Centre just north of the city. To get you excited, Bob Lansdale has generously permitted many of his fair photographs to be shown in … Continue reading →

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Newsletter 13-4

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Robert

Fall is here this week and we started off our fall season with an auction last Sunday, to be followed by a very special speaker this Wednesday, and our annual fall fair next month. And this newsletter (which was mailed … Continue reading →

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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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W. J Moore Panorama Photographs

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Robert

Toronto, August 12, 2013. I am a fan of BC’s public television. Occasionally the Vancouver station (Knowledge Network) shows a brief story featuring a Vancouver area panorama by W J Moore. If your TV able etc company doesn’t carry Knowledge … 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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Newsletter 13-3

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Robert

Editor David Bridge rounds up some juicy stories for this month: From left: Cover of 13-3. Trunk show, auction this fall and PHSC honours Harry Joy. Book and journal reviews. Revisiting the fireman daguerreotype. A dummy cheap infra-red plant camera. … 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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Boris Spremo C.M. to be inducted into the CNHF

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Robert

TORONTO, June 12. 2013. I get the Toronto Star delivered and its almost always here but I missed a paper last week and also the article on Boris being inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Thanks and a … Continue reading →

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