{"id":20919,"date":"2021-06-27T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20919"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:54:15","slug":"let-ed-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/let-ed-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"let Ed do it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weston Portrait with Graflex<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. One of the best known photographers in America was Edward Weston<\/a>. I have a massive coffee table size book simply titled “Edward Weston: Fifty Years<\/a>“. Published in 1973 by Aperture in the States, I bought my copy \u00a0new a year later. Today, asking prices for the 1st edition run from around $50US used to an eye-popping $980US new.<\/p>\n

For most of his portraits, Weston used Graflex cameras and various lenses. For close-ups and landscapes he seemed to favour view cameras.<\/p>\n

The ad shown here came from page 75 of the October, 1946 edition of Popular Photography<\/a>, and is courtesy of good friend and photographic historian, George Dunbar, who willingly shared his find with us.<\/p>\n

NB. The post title is a riff on a popular Toronto TV series in the 1950s – Let George Do It<\/a>. The TV series showed how to fix various things around the house. However, the catch phrase actually dates back to at least 1940 when George Formby was the star of a UK film of the same name as the catch phrase (I remember the movie, but I must have seen it years later as I remember seeing George Formby use an old Leica under very improbable lighting in a submarine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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