{"id":31726,"date":"2025-06-21T01:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31726"},"modified":"2025-06-21T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:08:27","slug":"on-the-shoulders-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/on-the-shoulders-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"on the shoulders of others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31727\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/others.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31727\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31727\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/others-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ontario, Western Canada, Photographers list<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The thing that separates us from all other species on this old ball of dirt is &#8230; learning. Humans learn from their ancestors and this learning allows us to extend knowledge, generation after generation.<\/p>\n<p>We photographic collectors are very aware of this capability as we see how the art has improved over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In issue 24-2 we have a book review by Stan White of two books researched, and written \u00a0by\u00a0Glen C. Phillips. The books list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/book-search\/title\/ontario-photographers-list\/author\/glen-phillips\/\">Ontario and Western Canada photographers<\/a> early last century and the century before (Western Canada). The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Ontario-Photographers-List-1851-1900\/dp\/B002TSKJ2U\">books<\/a> are published by a small publishing house (Iron Gate Publishing) in London, Ontario (later in Sarnia).<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ontariophotograp0002phil\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up\"> Internet Archive has the book<\/a>, but reserves viewing for members. The books are often in local libraries as they are also useful for genealogical research. They are a jumping off point for image collectors and photo history fans wishing to extend their knowledge and understanding of the art or their collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The thing that separates us from all other species on this old ball of dirt is &#8230; learning. Humans learn from their ancestors and this learning allows us to extend knowledge, generation after generation. We photographic collectors are very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/on-the-shoulders-of-others\/\">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":[1213,686],"class_list":["post-31726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-book-review","tag-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726","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=31726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31731,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726\/revisions\/31731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}