{"id":30907,"date":"2025-03-02T01:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30907"},"modified":"2025-02-28T00:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:28:31","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"in the beginning &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30908\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30908\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30908\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/matt-dag-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Isenburg &#8211; a modern daguerreotype by Mike Robinson &#8211; courtesy of NGC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The National Gallery of Canada [NGC] \u00a0houses one of the most auspicious photographic collections. This month, writer Nathan Mandigo wrote a detailed article on the collection, its original collector, and their background in the magazine of the NGC titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallery.ca\/magazine\/your-collection\/the-isenburg-collection-the-beginnings-of-photography\">THE ISENBURG COLLECTION: THE BEGINNINGS OF PHOTOGRAPHY<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The late Matt Isenburg spoke to us back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phsc.ca\/matt.html\">April, 2000<\/a> on &#8220;Evolution of the Camera&#8221; \u00a0 and again in September, 2005 on modern day collecting (Ramblings and Recollections).<\/p>\n<p>Matt amassed an eclectic collection photographica. Both he and <a href=\"https:\/\/centurydarkroom.com\/\">Mike Robinson<\/a> of this city were elected as president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/daguerreiansociety.org\/\">Daguerreian Society<\/a>. He was well known to Mike and our late editor, Bob Lansdale. Mike catalogued the collection when it was sold and housed in Toronto before moving on to the NGC.<\/p>\n<p>The above article is well worth the read, especially if you are a bit foggy on history of photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The National Gallery of Canada [NGC] \u00a0houses one of the most auspicious photographic collections. This month, writer Nathan Mandigo wrote a detailed article on the collection, its original collector, and their background in the magazine of the NGC titled, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/in-the-beginning\/\">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":[34,515,30,126,1053],"class_list":["post-30907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cameras","tag-collecting","tag-images","tag-isenburg","tag-ngc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907","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=30907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30911,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30907\/revisions\/30911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}