{"id":21697,"date":"2021-10-04T00:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21697"},"modified":"2021-10-04T00:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T04:43:04","slug":"through-the-wet-plate-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/through-the-wet-plate-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"through the wet-plate camera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a couple of Charlie’s portraits over a century and a half ago.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Being a photographer – and a good one – in the mid 1800s took exceptional skill and a fine, artistic eye. Author Lewis Carroll (A.K.A. the reverend Chas. Dodgson) was one such person.<\/p>\n

In Bruce Downes’s column (Let’s Talk Photography) in the Popular Photograph issue for January 1951<\/a>, beginning on page 83, discusses Carroll’s portraits and his unique abilities.<\/p>\n

The very first full length book I ever read (I was about 10 to 12 years old) was a paperback edition of Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass<\/em>” so Downes’s column has a particular interest to me as I look back through time to those halcyon days of yesteryear. I eventually read “Alice in Wonderland<\/em>” and Carroll’s poems such as “The Walrus and the Carpenter<\/em><\/a>”<\/p>\n

A special big tip of my hat to good friend and photo history maven, George Dunbar, for sharing this trip through time with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Being a photographer – and a good one – in the mid 1800s took exceptional skill and a fine, artistic eye. Author Lewis Carroll (A.K.A. the reverend Chas. Dodgson) was one such person. In Bruce Downes’s column (Let’s Talk … Continue reading →<\/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":[3877,5,914,763,182],"class_list":["post-21697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-photographer","tag-popular-photography","tag-portraits","tag-wet-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697","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=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21700,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions\/21700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}