{"id":15447,"date":"2019-08-31T05:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2019-08-31T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T18:48:40","slug":"from-talbot-to-steiglitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/from-talbot-to-steiglitz\/","title":{"rendered":"from Talbot to Stieglitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Masterpieces-of-Early-Photography-from-the-NYPL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15449\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Masterpieces-of-Early-Photography-from-the-NYPL-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. In March 1991, the PHSC presented me with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talbot-Stieglitz-Masterpieces-Photography-Library\/dp\/0500540772\">book<\/a> in the hard cover version. The NY Public Library (or NYC Public Library as I have it listed) became a long time member of the PHSC and remains an institutional member today. In 1982, when the book was first published by Thames and Hudson, Inc., the author, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.6sqft.com\/interview-author-julia-van-haaften-on-delving-into-the-life-of-photographer-berenice-abbott\/\">Julia Van Haaften<\/a>, had been a driving force in the library for a decade. She mixed a long term interest in photography with her work as a librarian in art history in the NYPL to rediscover and document their huge archive of photographic prints. This book was one of the results of her work.<\/p>\n<p>Julia wrote and continued to write many books about famous photographers. This book is a slim 126 pages illustrating just a few of the truly historic photographs in the library&#8217;s collection. Track down a copy and enjoy the read.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t recall the occasion, but it may have been when Don Douglas and I did our dog and pony show on the <em>History of Photography<\/em>. \u00a0The inside label identifying the presentation of the book smacks of the wonderful marketing skills of Les Jones, programme convenor at the time, and himself a photographer and an eclectic collector of photographica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In March 1991, the PHSC presented me with this book in the hard cover version. The NY Public Library (or NYC Public Library as I have it listed) became a long time member of the PHSC and remains an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/from-talbot-to-steiglitz\/\">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":[20],"tags":[397,2750,339],"class_list":["post-15447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-book","tag-nypl","tag-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447","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=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15456,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/15456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}