{"id":21008,"date":"2021-07-11T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T05:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2021-07-08T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:24:21","slug":"fit-to-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fit-to-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"all that&#8217;s fit to photograph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21009\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-Dec.-1946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21009\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21009\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graflex-Popular-Photography-Dec.-1946-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graflex ad in the December 1946 issue of Pop Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The best known press cameras according to Hollywood seem to be the ubiquitous Speed Graphic models. This ad from the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=KmczAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">December, 1946 \u00a0issue of Popular Photography<\/a> [link repeated here for the viewer&#8217;s convenience] \u00a0suggests why.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to good friend, retired industrial photographer\/videographer, and PHSC member, George Dunbar, for sharing his interesting find with us.<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is a riff on one of the most famous &#8216;catch phrases&#8217; in Newspaper History, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-16918787\">All the News That&#8217;s Fit to Print<\/a>&#8220;. Owner of the NY Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolph_Ochs\">Adolph Ochs<\/a>, coined it in 1897 and it remains the slogan of the NY Times newspaper today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The best known press cameras according to Hollywood seem to be the ubiquitous Speed Graphic models. This ad from the December, 1946 \u00a0issue of Popular Photography [link repeated here for the viewer&#8217;s convenience] \u00a0suggests why. My thanks to good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fit-to-photograph\/\">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":[972,3755,398,263,886,880],"class_list":["post-21008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-adolph-ochs","tag-camera","tag-graflex","tag-ny-times","tag-speed-graphic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008","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=21008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21013,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21008\/revisions\/21013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}