{"id":17294,"date":"2020-04-29T05:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17294"},"modified":"2020-04-27T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:10:26","slug":"have-camera-will-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-camera-will-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"have camera, will travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17295\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dog-and-pony-show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17295\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17295\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dog-and-pony-show-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">c1939 photograph of a baby on a pony.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The dirty &#8217;30s! What a terrible time. What a wonderful time. Itinerant photographers, known since the beginning of the art, roamed the streets searching for a buck. Many had just a camera plus a pony and assistant for a prop. The dog and pony show at left was taken by one such roving lensman around 1939. It was popular to use a pony for baby shots, after all what mom could resist a portrait of her baby riding a pony!<\/p>\n<p>For the photographer, the pony became a prop and the sunny outdoors his studio. At night the orders of the day could be processed and printed, ready for delivery to the proud mother for just a few pennies. One such photographer came around when I was about two or younger, capturing me and our little terrier standing on the porch of our home.<\/p>\n<p>That day was many decades ago and if I didn&#8217;t have the photograph, I would never have even known about the pony, dog, camera, or photographer. In fact, I was unaware of the location since my first memories are of a house some blocks away and a few years further on. \u00a0Less than a decade later, another itinerant photographer and pony came along and photographed me holding my baby sister at another house a few blocks away from the other ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The dirty &#8217;30s! What a terrible time. What a wonderful time. Itinerant photographers, known since the beginning of the art, roamed the streets searching for a buck. Many had just a camera plus a pony and assistant for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/have-camera-will-travel\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[3110,613,5,3111,585,3112],"class_list":["post-17294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-itinerant","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-pony","tag-portrait","tag-small-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294","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=17294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17297,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17294\/revisions\/17297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}