{"id":11189,"date":"2018-04-01T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11189"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:31:10","slug":"the-earliest-days-of-american-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The earliest days of American photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11191\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/07-paper1-superJumbo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11191\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/07-paper1-superJumbo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/07-paper1-superJumbo-sm.jpg 223w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/07-paper1-superJumbo-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B&amp;O Locomotive near Oakland MD<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Thanks to my good friend and co-founder of the PHSC, John Linsky, for emailing me about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/07\/lens\/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography.html?rref=collection\/sectioncollection\/lens&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=lens&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=9&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">this NY Times article<\/a> on the Getty exhibition of early American photography by Rena Silverman. I did a post about the Getty <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10959\">exhibition<\/a> earlier but the NY Times puts a different spin on things &#8211; Rena begins with this paragraph, &#8220;<em>The most forged documents in financial history were the work of ordinary rascals who needed little skill to make money. All they needed was a camera.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to review both forgeries and photography&#8217;s early days. She includes photos from the Getty exhibition too (like the Baltimore &amp; Ohio railway locomotive above left taken around 1860 near Oakland Maryland).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Thanks to my good friend and co-founder of the PHSC, John Linsky, for emailing me about this NY Times article on the Getty exhibition of early American photography by Rena Silverman. I did a post about the Getty exhibition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-earliest-days-of-american-photography\/\">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":[10,705],"tags":[183,1819,74,521,220,438],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-photos","tag-american","tag-bo","tag-exhibition","tag-getty","tag-photos","tag-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189","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=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11196,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions\/11196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}