{"id":30473,"date":"2025-01-06T01:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T05:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30473"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T01:02:42","slug":"the-real-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-real-mccoy\/","title":{"rendered":"the real McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Studio Work” by J A Castor of Ontario, c1870<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Well over a century ago publications had a choice of using words, sketches, coarse \u00a0half -tones, or real prints tipped in. \u00a0In issue 19-5, future editor Bob Lansdale wrote an article titled, “Real photo prints graced early Canadian Photographic [CP] Journal”.<\/i><\/p>\n

The tipped-in photos were donated to us by Thomas Ritchie of White River. Of the photographer Castor, Bob writes (quoting Mr Ritchie), “En<\/span>ti<\/span>tl<\/span>ed ‘<\/span>Studio <\/span>Work’<\/span>, <\/span>(<\/span>140 x 98mm) <\/span>by J<\/span>.A. <\/span>Cas<\/span>tor<\/span>, Ontario<\/span>, <\/span>i<\/span>s <\/span>printed\u00a0<\/span>o<\/span>n <\/span>A<\/span>m<\/span>erica<\/span>n ‘<\/span>Ar<\/span>i<\/span>sto’<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>paper. P<\/span>ages <\/span>319\u00a0<\/span>a<\/span>nd <\/span>320 of <\/span>the <\/span>journal <\/span>carried his <\/span>photo\u00a0an<\/span>d <\/span>life story from Collingwood, <\/span>Ontario,\u00a0<\/span>as fo<\/span>ll<\/span>ows<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Starti<\/span>n<\/span>g <\/span>in <\/span>1872 <\/span>h<\/span>e <\/span>was <\/span>trained <\/span>by <\/span>J.H.\u00a0D<\/span>av<\/span>is<\/span>, <\/span>whom h<\/span>e <\/span>l<\/span>at<\/span>er bought ou<\/span>t.\u00a0<\/span>The <\/span>studi<\/span>o was burn<\/span>ed and h<\/span>e <\/span>re<\/span>turn<\/span>ed\u00a0<\/span>to a <\/span>Grieves Bl<\/span>ock <\/span>l<\/span>oca<\/span>ti<\/span>o<\/span>n <\/span>from 1<\/span>875 <\/span>t<\/span>o\u00a0<\/span>1888<\/span>, <\/span>wh<\/span>e<\/span>n h<\/span>e m<\/span>oved t<\/span>o B<\/span>ell<\/span>s New <\/span>Block<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Cast<\/span>or‘<\/span>s <\/span>10 competit<\/span>ors, <\/span>over <\/span>his <\/span>22 years<\/span>\u00a0of <\/span>bus<\/span>in<\/span>ess<\/span>, <\/span>e<\/span>xisted individua<\/span>ll<\/span>y\u00a0<\/span>from 1 to <\/span>3 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Th<\/span>e [CP] J<\/em><\/span>o<\/em>urnal <\/i><\/span>co<\/span>ntinu<\/span>es<\/span>, <\/span>h<\/span>e <\/span>ha<\/span>s <\/span>n<\/span>eve<\/span>r\u00a0l<\/span>owered prices or gone <\/span>in <\/span>for sca<\/span>m<\/span>s. <\/span>Gets $4 for <\/span>cabin<\/span>e<\/span>ts<\/span>. <\/span>He <\/span>makes everything from\u00a0littl<\/span>e ‘<\/span>sun <\/span>beams’<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>up <\/span>to 1<\/span>8 x <\/span>22. H<\/span>as 3\u00a0differen<\/span>t p<\/span>ortrait came<\/span>r<\/span>as a<\/span>nd <\/span>2 view\u00a0<\/span>cam<\/span>eras 8 <\/span>x 10 and <\/span>14 x 17. Hi<\/span>s ope<\/span>ratin<\/span>g\u00a0<\/span>room <\/span>i<\/span>s <\/span>16 <\/span>x 40 (feet)<\/span>, s<\/span>ky<\/span>li<\/span>g<\/span>ht fac<\/span>ing north\u00a0a<\/span>nd <\/span>of <\/span>ground glass, <\/span>very <\/span>sof<\/span>t<\/span>, <\/span>though\u00a0strong. <\/span>It <\/span>i<\/span>s 1<\/span>6 x 20 feet<\/span>, <\/span>very steep t<\/span>o\u00a0avoid <\/span>th<\/span>e sn<\/span>ow <\/span>l<\/span>yin<\/span>g on i<\/span>t. <\/span>H<\/span>as <\/span>sid<\/span>e li<\/span>ght\u00a0down to <\/span>within <\/span>3 <\/span>feet of <\/span>the floor.<\/p>\n

“No s<\/span>pecial <\/span>curt<\/span>ain<\/span>s except <\/span>on<\/span>e big <\/span>one of <\/span>thin\u00a0<\/span>cotto<\/span>n <\/span>if <\/span>th<\/span>e li<\/span>ght <\/span>is <\/span>too <\/span>stron<\/span>g. <\/span>M<\/span>a<\/span>n<\/span>age(s)\u00a0light <\/span>with sma<\/span>ll <\/span>bac<\/span>kground for screen.\u00a0<\/span>Own <\/span>styl<\/span>e of <\/span>li<\/span>ghtin<\/span>g and <\/span>it <\/span>seems t<\/span>o work\u00a0<\/span>very we<\/span>ll.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Toronto. Well over a century ago publications had a choice of using words, sketches, coarse \u00a0half -tones, or real prints tipped in. \u00a0In issue 19-5, future editor Bob Lansdale wrote an article titled, “Real photo prints graced early Canadian Photographic … 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":[2017,402,220],"class_list":["post-30473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-people","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473","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=30473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30477,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions\/30477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}