{"id":16421,"date":"2020-01-14T05:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16421"},"modified":"2020-01-11T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:43:16","slug":"16421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/16421\/","title":{"rendered":"come a little bit closer II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16422\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lou-Turofsky-Alexandra-Studios-c.1920-CTA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16422\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Lou-Turofsky-Alexandra-Studios-c.1920-CTA-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Toronto photographers in front of their studio (Alexandra Studios) c1920 courtesy of the Toronto Archives<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0&#8230; to paraphrase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-yjQ7zJTjo\">Jay and the Americans<\/a> back in 1964, but I don&#8217;t think the band had the Turofsky&#8217;s in mind.Previously, I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15074\">Marty Robins<\/a> and this line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We tend to Google for information on photography and cameras. While this approach is informative and helpful, don&#8217;t forget the other local resources in your pursuit of photographic history such as libraries, museums and archives both city, provincial, federal, and educational.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/city-government\/accountability-operations-customer-service\/access-city-information-or-records\/city-of-toronto-archives\/\">Toronto Archives<\/a> is one such resource. It has a rich collection of images related to Toronto photographic history in its fonds. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=2311\">Turofsky<\/a> brothers who operated out of the Alexandria Studios donated many of their negatives and prints to the archives&#8217; fonds.<\/p>\n<p>The example at left is one such photo placed online for the pleasure of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0&#8230; to paraphrase Jay and the Americans back in 1964, but I don&#8217;t think the band had the Turofsky&#8217;s in mind.Previously, I mentioned Marty Robins and this line&#8230; We tend to Google for information on photography and cameras. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/16421\/\">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":[60,686,220,348,59],"class_list":["post-16421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-archives","tag-photographers","tag-photos","tag-studio","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421","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=16421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16429,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16421\/revisions\/16429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}