{"id":30923,"date":"2025-03-04T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=30923"},"modified":"2025-03-03T00:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:12:45","slug":"aptly-chosen-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/aptly-chosen-words\/","title":{"rendered":"aptly chosen words …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preston Springs Hotel by Stan White, c1996<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Various photographers have chosen to pick popular city locations which were photographed many decades ago, and show what they look like today given roughly the same field of view, etc.<\/p>\n

In our journal issue 22-1, the late Stan White chose to compare stereo views “then and now”. The example here is the “Preston Springs Hotel”, just a bit west of the city. In his article titled, “Then and Now”, Stan begins, “Many people think that history finished the day they <\/span>were <\/span>born. <\/span>It <\/span>comes\u00a0<\/span>as surprise to <\/span>an old <\/span>man <\/span>to find that <\/span>the\u00a0young consider <\/span>him his<\/span>tory. Many <\/span>of <\/span>us\u00a0see our short sojourn through life <\/span>as\u00a0though from a railway station <\/span>looking\u00a0back down the tracks of <\/span>time. <\/span><\/p>\n

“We should\u00a0<\/span>be thinking <\/span>of <\/span>ourselves as passengers <\/span>on\u00a0a train <\/span>speeding into the <\/span>future at the\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>a<\/span>me speed <\/span>it <\/span>is leaving the <\/span>past behind –\u00a0<\/span>a <\/span>train whose <\/span>passengers are feveri<\/span>s<\/span>hly making history.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It <\/span>behooves a<\/span>ll <\/span>historical soc<\/span>i<\/span>eties <\/span>not\u00a0t<\/span>o <\/span>become s0 <\/span>involved in <\/span>the past that\u00a0they have no time <\/span>for the <\/span>present, <\/span>for the\u00a0present is the history of <\/span>the future<\/span>. <\/span>We <\/span>live <\/span>in <\/span>a young society. In\u00a0<\/span>Ontario, even <\/span>if we <\/span>include the aborigin<\/span>a<\/span>l\u00a0tapestry, there is littl<\/span>e <\/span>tangible pictorial,\u00a0<\/span>hi<\/span>storical <\/span>evidence that goes back more\u00a0<\/span>than 250 years<\/span>. <\/span>Perhaps a <\/span>little more or <\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>littl<\/span>e l<\/span>ess in <\/span>other parts <\/span>of <\/span>Canada.”<\/p>\n

Members can read Stan’s thought provoking article in the issue 22-1 pdf file on the members-only free DVD which contains the first 40 volumes of “Photographic Canadiana<\/em>” including an index of all articles (the index is in various formats). Those not a member at present can follow the instructions above (paying by cheque, etc.) or at right (paying by credit card or PayPal account). Questions? Email Lilianne at member@phsc.ca<\/a>. \u00a0PS: Help us out, please indicate whether your membership is NEW or a RENEWAL. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Various photographers have chosen to pick popular city locations which were photographed many decades ago, and show what they look like today given roughly the same field of view, etc. In our journal issue 22-1, the late Stan White … 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":[2017,403,495,258],"class_list":["post-30923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-article","tag-journal","tag-photograph","tag-stereo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923","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=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30929,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions\/30929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}