{"id":10959,"date":"2018-03-04T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2018-04-02T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T04:30:46","slug":"a-rare-site-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-rare-site-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"a rare sight these days &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10960\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/studio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10960\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/studio-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Armstead &amp; White photography<br \/>gallery in Corinth, Mississippi,<br \/>around 1861-65<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. When was the last time you saw a photographer&#8217;s studio on a popular retail street or plaza? Lots of tiny shops that also take passport photos, or a local licence bureau or a mall Santa Claus with a back-board\/back-drop and camera set up hooked to a computer, but few if any\u00a0<em>genuine<\/em> walk-in studios.<\/p>\n<p>Like many other industries, photography and its customers have mostly disappeared under the waves of digital technology. Every smartphone has a camera, often with software controls that make the rawest neophyte an instant expert. A recent news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/10\/4\/16402682\/google-clips-camera-announced-price-release-date-wireless\">announcement<\/a> in the States offers a cheap AI driven camera sold by Google to take great shots of pets and children it recognizes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar for the photograph of an old fashioned studio down south in the small town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corinth,_Mississippi\">Corinth<\/a>, Mississippi a century and a half ago. Corinth was founded a few years earlier and became embroiled in the American Civil War. The original was taken by George Armstead and this image is courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/buzzlegendary.com\/gabrielsanchez\/oldest-pictures-in-american-history?utm_term=.awNQ97gGWg#.pbK0YJ9nP9\">BuzzFeed News<\/a>. who credit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/museum\/\">J Paul Getty Museum<\/a> where the image is on display through May 27th of this year (2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. When was the last time you saw a photographer&#8217;s studio on a popular retail street or plaza? Lots of tiny shops that also take passport photos, or a local licence bureau or a mall Santa Claus with a back-board\/back-drop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-rare-site-these-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[1767,1769,1770,348,1768],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-armstead","tag-corinth","tag-mississippi","tag-studio","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11215,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/11215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}