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Volume 13-10, Supplement to Photographic Canadiana, March 2014
The Photographic Historical Society of Canada
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 7:30 PM
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Canadian photojournalist Ted Grant. Learn about the
60-year career of this photographer-author-lecturer,
known as the "father of Canadian photojournalism."
PHSC Monthly Meetings
are held on the third Wednesday from
September to June in the Gold Room,
of Memorial Hall in the basement of
the North York Central Library,
5120 Yonge St., North York, Ontario.
The meeting officially begins at 8:00
p.m. but is preceded by a Buy & Sell
and social gathering from 7:00 p.m.
onwards. For information contact the
PHSC at info@phsc.ca
PHSC monthly meetings are in the Gold Room,
(basement) of the North York Central Library,
at 5120 Yonge Street. Inside access from the North York
Centre TTC Subway stop and plenty of underground parking.
Members and General Public Welcome!
Coming Up this Month! Don’t Miss It!
PHSC General Consignment
Programming Schedule:
March 19, 2014
-Ted Grant DVD presentation
April 16, 2014
-Meredith Reddy speaking on “Haunted
Mediums: Photographs of Supernatural
Phenomena, 1880 - 1930”
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MARCH 23, 2014
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Toronto Notes Reported by Robert Carter
Katie Addleman on Baldus
what he considered to be
superfluous details in the
images so the far more
permanent photogravure
showed only what he chose
to keep in the print. Baldus
refined and improved his
ability to create such
images. One of his earlier
photogravures was included
in an 1854 issue of the
journal La Lumiere. The
magazine
was
very
complimentary (their brief
paragraph was thoughtfully
translated into English by
Katie).
Baldus’s photogravures
were published in the book
PALAIS DU LOUVRE et
DES TUILERIES Motifs de
decoration interieure et
exterieuere. Katie found
about 75 copies of the
books in the hands of institutions.
She speculated that more (an
unknown number) were in private
collections. She acknowledged
Robert Hill, a Toronto collector in
the audience tonight, for allowing
her to review his collection of
works by Baldus.
It is interesting to me that
Baldus used photography as it
was envisioned by Niecephore
Niépce. Niépce's objective in the
early 1800s was to find an effective
way to transfer what he could see
to a printing plate without undue
detailed manual effort. As we all
know, he collaborated with
Daguerre until his death in the
summer of 1833. Daguerre was
ultimately successful and his
process was revealed five and a
half years later in January 1839, as
the Daguerreotype, the first
announced photographic process.
It rapidly covered the civilized
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT LANSDALE
Katie Addleman won our
PPCM Thesis award for 2013 with
her paper on French photographer
Édouard
Baldus
and
his
photogravures of two Paris palaces
- the Louvre and the Tuileries. Her
thesis will appear in a forthcoming
Photographic Canadiana. Katie
has assisted with several major
exhibitions including Félix Thiollier:
Photographies (Musée d’Orsay,
Paris, 2012) and Charles Marville:
Photographer of Paris (National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
2013). In 2013 she won a Western
Magazine Award (Gold Award) for
her writing on the visual arts, which
appears regularly in Canadian Art,
Border Crossings, and ELLE
Canada.
Tonight she presented a brief
overview of her MA thesis on
Édouard Baldus. who documented
the then new embellishments to
the Palais du Louvre et des
Tuileries. Shades of Photoshop!
Baldus used his own photogravure
technique, removing unwanted
elements in the photograph such
as construction debris, or a column
resting beside the embellishment
he chose to capture.
She reviewed the background
of her subject, Baldus, and what
made him a candidate to record
the additions to two French
palaces in photogravure. She
explained popularity and technique
of photogravure as follows: while a
photographic print made in the
mid-1800s captured the details of
the architecture, the print faded in
time. This was solved by using a
photographic print to create a
photogravure
plate.
Before
printing, the plate was re-etched
several times to raise the tonal
range of the resulting image.
Baldus blocked out dates and
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Katie Addleman
world that year - no mean feat in
the days of horse transportation
and steam ships!
The title of Katie’s thesis and
tonight’s talk. “Process of
Selection” refers to the fact that
Baldus selected the images to be
included in PALAIS and how this
selection was accomplished. Her
thesis in a coming issue of
Photographic Canadiana will
expand on many of tonight’s
topics, including the importance of
the Baldus photogravure technique
in photographic history, and why
he chose to use his own process
rather than the many popular
processes then on the market.
Many interesting questions
were raised during the Q&A
session after her presentation,
showing how well her talk was
received. I, for one, was introduced
to a new aspect of photography. I
look forward to reading her thesis
in this fall’s journal.
/RC
from the Past 40 Years
From an article in the 25th anniversary edition of our journal, Photographic Canadiana, dated September-October 1999:
25 Years of memories…
1974 – 1999
Talk with any of the founding officers and members of the
PHSC and they will tell you that the past twenty-five years have
slipped by too fast; but that quarter century has left a trail of
valuable memories as the Society has moved from project to project, from success to success.
It all started in the summer of 1974 when John Linsky,
while strolling on Eglinton Ave. West, spotted a collection of old
cameras displayed in the window of the Canadian School of
Photography. Intrigued, he introduced himself to the proprietor,
Larry Boccioletti and found they had a mutual interest in collecting photographic memorabilia and saw the need for a collectors
society in Toronto. Weeks later, John brought fellow collector,
Morris Fischtein, into the circle who offered to support the idea
of forming a club.
“I was quite delighted”, recalls Larry, “when seventeen people showed up, including three women. The founding meeting of
the PHS of New York only had 17 people to kick off its success,
so I felt it was a good omen. Discussions were lively and constructive and we came to a concensus of what was needed. A
collection was taken to defray the costs of the room at which
John Linsky volunteered to take on the responsibility of holding
follow-up meetings at his home. I then journeyed to Arkansas
which became an extended visit of two years but sporadically
was able to return and participate in some activities”.
John Linsky remembers, “With Larry’s departure I was propelled into the position of moving the society forward. At the
initial meetings we agreed that we needed to organize. Some
volunteers came forward and this group met in my home – Terry
Wedge, Harold McNutt, Morris Fischtein and myself. We started
out to create a National society with local chapters. We actually
had two executive committees, one for the National and one for
the Toronto Chapter which conducted monthly programme meet4
PHOTO BY ROBERT LANSDALE
As Larry recalls the events, “I had the experience of forming the Photographic Historical Society of New York in 1969 so
could see the real benefits of pulling together a group of likeinterested camera collectors here in Canada. As fate would have
it, my school of photography “went down the tube” so I had a
lot of free time on my hands. In discussions with Morris we laid
down the basic plan of attack; Morris was too busy to offer time
for the project but agreed to bank roll the initial expenses with a
cheque for $100 – a tidy sum which I certainly wasn’t capable of
covering in my circumstances. I set to work each day, phoning
people I thought might be interested in such a club, asking if
they knew any others with similar interests. Pretty soon there
was a list of some 150 names from which were selected 100 to
receive a letter explaining our aims and inviting them to a
meeting at the Constellation Hotel in Rexdale (northwest
Toronto). Newspaper ads also promoted the founding meeting
of October 23rd, 1974”.
John Linsky
Founding President of the PHSC
ings. Several years later we merged the two groups. Meeting
locations varied initially with a number of movies bolstering our
speaker programs. In half a year we started a monthly newsletter
– Photographic Canadiana which was widely circulated to promote membership. We arranged for a display of collectables at
the C.N.E. to carry our message. We made a presentation to the
Tariff Revisions board, initiated the Incorporation of the Society
which required drafting bylaws and constitution, and laid plans
for a “Swap-Meet” which became our first Canadian
Photographica Fair at the (old) North York Memorial Hall on
June 7th 1975. More volunteers joined in, including Gene
Wasylciw, Jack Addison, John Alldredge, George Barton,
Marjorie Addison, Robert Dynes, Ron Anger, Laura Jones and
others. By March ‘75 we had attained 53 members, January ‘76
saw the total at 115. To encourage growth, dues were set at $10
for the National and Toronto society or $5 for the National only.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA 25-2 SEPT / OCT 1999 25TH ANNIVERSARY 1974 – 1999
Continued next page
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from the Past 40 Years - continued
More from an article from the PHSC 25th anniversary journal in 1999
A trip back to the 1970’s
Not all projects proved a success as a planned trip to George
Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. brought little response, a hopedfor photographic museum proved not to be feasible and additional
Chapters did not materialize”.
FOUNDERS
MORRIS FISCHTEIN
AND LARRY
BOCCIOLETTI
PREPARE
PUBLICITY IN 1974
“Looking through old photographs of PHSC events it is
interesting to note how dark everyone’s hair was in those early
days. The youthful faces in our photo collection might explain
our aggressiveness and daring to try anything. Profit for the 2nd
Annual Fair of May 15, 1976 came to $91.01 and we were on a
path for future stability”.
PHOTO COURTESY OF NICK GRAVER
“It would be impossible to note all the dedicated workers
who have poured hours of work into mounting projects and
administering the society. Much of our vitality in recent years
can be attributed to the fresh ideas and energy of younger members. While membership has been steady in the 225 – 300 range,
many members joined back in the 1970s and 1980s. As our average age increases, we need to focus more on attracting youthful
members. We have accumulated a good financial buffer through
profits from our Fairs and Auctions only because we had many
volunteers. These events provide the funds necessary for our
publications, meetings, Awards program, Website and other
activities. Inevitably we must pass everything into the care of
keen and younger capable hands”.
Comments founding President John Linsky, “The end of our
25 years is the beginning of our next 25 years. I am pleased with
all we have accomplished and hope the Society will florish in
the next quarter century. My thanks to all the members who volunteered and contributed to one of the finest photographic historical societies in the world.”
FIRST PHOTO SALE JUNE 7, 1975 IN NORTH YORK
(OLD) MEMORIAL HALL –LINSKY, FISCHTEIN,
MCNUTT AND WEDGE IN STEREO CARD
MARJORIE ADDISON TENDS TABLE AT RIGHT
“For the future”, says Larry Boccioletti, “ultimately flash
bulbs will become as scarce and cherished as daguerreotypes.
Digital photography will have replaced image creation as we
know it today, but I am sure that the love for cameras of polished brass and varnished wood, or chrome and black-leather
will be just as fervent. May our efforts initiated in 1974 bring
happy benefits for the decades to come”. ❧
▲
PHSC WEB SITE PAGES
BOOTH DISPLAYS OF 1975 SAW JOE MILNER (leaning) top), NEIL FOX (with stereo
viewer), JOHN LINSKY (at right)
▲
PC JOURNALS OF ‘76, ‘81 & ‘96
CONT’D
NEXT
PAGE
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1976 MEETINGS AT RUTHERFORD’S LAIRD DR. AND WILD LEITZ CANADA, ANDREW BIRRELL –SPREAKER
25TH ANNIVERSARY 1974 – 1999 PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA 25-2 SEPT / OCT 1999
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Our Readers Write
Chris McCallan writes:
I have a box of glass plate
negatives, dry plates I believe, all
taken by the same photographer.
I’m trying to identify him/her. The
scant information that I have is
that this person worked around
the Brantford, Ontario area. The
plates are approximately 5”X7”
in size. They do not appear to be
coated by the photographer.
As far as I can tell from the
period dress and props they look
like the 1890-1915 era. If anyone
could help to either identify the
time period, any of the subjects
or the photographer, I would
very much appreciate it.
You can contact Chris at
mccallanimaging@sympatico.ca
The PHSC Press
Now Available! from
Secure The Shadow
The Life of Benjamin Franklin Baltzly
life: his early and somewhat sinister years in the USA;
time spent in Canada before and after Notman; and his
decline and death back home in the States.
Most of the material is newly
released and sheds light on this
interesting and innovative practitioner of the art of the photograph from the days when it
took more than money to succeed in this business.
The book is in full colour and
profusely illustrated. 75 pages,
soft cover. $45.00. Copies may
be ordered via press@phsc.ca.
The book can be picked up at a
Robert Wilson
local meeting or mailed to the
Photo: R. Lansdale
purchaser for a small extra fee.
Secure the Shadow, by Robert G.
Wilson is the exciting and colourful
story of late 19th
century photographer Benjamin
Baltzly.
Baltzly
was
especially
successful as a
working photographer for the Montreal studio of William
Notman. His trip to the wilds of British Columbia in
1871 on behalf of Notman is well documented in earlier books but there is little published of his life outside
that window.
Dr. Wilson for the first time delves into Baltzly’s
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New Photo Links: Items of Photographic Interest
Compiled by Louise Freyburger. Descriptions from the respective websites.
The Bancroft Library has recently
updated its online collection of
early California photography with
several dozen significant works
made prior to 1860.
The Charles L. Weed Photographs
of the Middle Fork of the American
River and Forest Hill, the Yosemite
Valley and Mariposa Big Trees,
Coloma, and Placerville Oct. 1858July 1859. (BANC PIC 1958.024—
ffALB) are now online via the
Calisphere and the Online Archive
of California websites. The collection consists of 26 views (salted
paper prints) of mining districts and
riverbed mining in California’s gold
country, 17 views of Yosemite, and
5 views of trees in sequoia groves
or other forests. The Yosemite
views are considered the first photographs taken in Yosemite Valley
and environs.
Also newly online is the Bancroft
Library’s copy of George Robinson
Fardon’s “San Francisco Album” of
salt prints, published in 1856. To
these have been added several
single-item Fardon prints also held
in Bancroft collections.
Both of these salt print collections
have been described within
Bancroft’s online finding aid to
“Cased Photographs and Related
Images from The Bancroft Library
Pictorial Collections, circa 1845circa 1870.” Here are found digital
images and item descriptions of all
daguerreotypes,
ambrotypes,
cased tintypes, and other cased
images that were in the Bancroft
collections prior to the year 2000.
www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/
ark:/13030/tf7p3006fv/(Keyword
search for Weed, Fardon, or salted
paper)
Lucy Marks’ article in the Sydney
Morning Herald about the Andrews
donation: www.smh.com.au/nsw/
working-harbour-a-lot-of-waterhas-gone-under-bridge2 0 1 4 0 1 0 4 - 3 0 a w 6 .
html#ixzz2sHG1pyuU. City of
Sidney’s Archives homepage:
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/
learn/history/archives
The Royal Australian Historical
Society’s “Kodak Collection”:
“A large suitcase, rescued during
the closure of the Kodak factory in
City of Sydney, Australia –
Archival Photos of Sydney’s
Working Harbour
About 10,000 images chronicling
160 years of the history of Sydney,
Australia’s harbour have been
donated by collector Graeme
Andrews, navy veteran and hobby
photographer to the City of Sydney
in the largest and most significant
photographic donation to the pub-
lic archives to date. City of Sydney
archivist Mark Stevens said the
unpublished photographs chronicle some of the most interesting
moments in Sydney’s ongoing
transformation:
City of Sydney [Australia] Archives
“Working Harbour” including digitized photos from the Graeme
Andrews’ donation: www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/history/
archives/working-harbour
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Victoria, arrived at History House –
home of the Royal Australian
Historical Society – this year. The
suitcase contained 43 images on
photograph boards with the words
“A Kodak Historical Photography
Presentation." Kodak had dominated the photographic equipment
and film industry for most of the
twentieth century with its advertising tagline “Kodak moment”
becoming part of everyday speech
to describe a moment that needed
to be recorded for posterity. This
American company opened its first
factory in Australia in 1928 in
Abbotsford Victoria.” View the
Kodak Collection at:
www.flickr.com/photos/royalaustralianhistoricalsociety/
sets/72157635677374193/
PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
PHSC ANNUAL AUCTION
SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd, 2014
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION #101, 3850 LAKESHORE BLVD. WEST
LOCATED END OF LAKESHORE TTC STREET CAR RUN TO LONG BRANCH TERMINAL
OR TAKE THE GO-TRAIN STATION TO LONG BRANCH STATION (IMMEDIATELY HANDY)
REGISTRATION 8:30–10.00 AM – VIEWING 10.00–11:00 AM
BIDDING STARTS 11:00 AM – limited to 250 lots
Consignors are requested to bring in quality items to be auctioned.
Material will be critiqued for acceptability at the door.
FORMAT SAME AS PREVIOUS AUCTIONS
A 5% BUYER’S PREMIUM WILL APPLY
CASH or known CHEQUE will be accepted as payment for auction items.
Sorry – no provision for credit card payments.
Registration starts 8:30 AM - Bidding starts 11:00 AM
FREE ADMISSION – PUBLIC WELCOME
For update information check: www.phsc.ca
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 2014
January to Dec. 2014, George Eastman House in
Rochester, N.Y. series of workshops dealing with
historic photographic processes.
Collodion Chloride Printing: April 7 to 9, 2014
Daguerreotypes: April 22 to 25, 2014
Twenty-three workshops to choose from
Check out: http://www.eastmanhouse.org/events/
Photo_Workshops.php
March 16, 2014, 31st
Annual D.C. Antique Photo
and Postcard Shows, Tom
Rall, Show Manager,
1101 N. Kentucky St.
Arlington, VA 22205,
703-534-8220
Sunday March 23, 2014, PHSC Spring Auction
Canadian Legion #101 3850
Lakeshore Blvd. West
PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
Toronto, Ont. M8W 1R3, free
PHSC ANNUAL AUCTION
SUNDAY, MARCH 23rd, 2014
entry, bring money.
April 27, 2014, Vancouver Camera Show & Swap
Cameron Rec’n C’tre, Burnaby, (Vancouver) B.C.
May 2014, CONTACT 2014, PHSC Stereo Exhibit
Campbell House University & Queen Sts., Toronto,
Stereo portraits, lectures, film and exhibit.
See schedule of events www.phsc.ca
May 9, 2014, Photo Educators Forum
Ryerson University, Toronto
May 13-18, 2014, Brimfield Antique Show
Five days of antique hunting at Brimfield,
Massachusetts, outdoor show with 5000 dealers
May 16, 2014, The Washington DC Image Show
May 16 & 17, 2014, Ohio Camera Collector’s Soc’y
Auction, May 16 and Fair, May 17, 2014.
Sunday, May 25, 2014, PHSC Spring Fair,
Soccer C’tre, 7601 Martin Grove Rd., Willowdale.
10:00AM to 3:00PM, entry fee $7.00
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION #101, 3850 LAKESHORE BLVD. WEST
LOCATED END OF LAKESHORE TTC STREET CAR RUN TO LONG BRANCH TERMINAL
OR TAKE THE GO-TRAIN STATION TO LONG BRANCH STATION (IMMEDIATELY HANDY)
Sunday March 23, 2014,
Michigan Camera Show
Royal Oak Elks Lodge 2401 E.
Fourth Street Royal Oak, MI.
10:00AM to 3:00PM, admission
$6.00
REGISTRATION 8:30–10.00 AM – VIEWING 10.00–11:00 AM
BIDDING STARTS 11:00 AM – limited to 250 lots
Members are requested to bring in high quality items to be auctioned.
No junk please! Material will be critiqued at the door for acceptability.
FORMAT SAME AS PREVIOUS AUCTIONS
A 5% BUYER’S PREMIUM WILL APPLY
CASH or known CHEQUE will be accepted as payment for auction items.
Sorry – no provision for credit card payments.
Registration starts 9:00 AM - Bidding starts 11:30 AM
FREE ADMISSION – PUBLIC WELCOME
For update information check: www.phsc.ca/auction.html
Sunday March 30, 2014, Camerama Photo Show: New
Location! DELTA TORONTO EAST, 2035 Kennedy Rd.
Scarborough, ON, 10 AM to 3 PM, admission $7.00
May 29-June 1, 2014, F295 Symposium:
Sunday, April 6, 2014, 53rd Montreal Camera Show,
Photography Beyond Technique, Wyndham
Holiday Inn Pointe-Claire,
Pittsburgh University Center Pittsburgh PA US
6700 Trans Canada Hwy, Pointe-Claire. Quebec
June 7 & 8, 2014, Bievres International Photofair,
10 AM to 3 PM, Admission: $7.00 per person
Bievres, France, best European collectors fair
April 10-13, 2014, AIPAD Photography Show
Sunday, July 2014, PHSC Trunk Sale
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY
80 world’s leading photography art galleries
July 8–14, 2014, 40th Annual National Stereo Assoc.
http://www.aipad.com/?page=PhotographyShow
Convention and Trade Show, Murfreesboro, Texas
April 11-12, 2014, New York Photo Show & Sale 19th
September 25–28, 2014, Daguerreian Symposium
- 21st Century Photographic Images, Lighthouse
Austin, Texas – Symposium and Trade Show
Conference Center, 111 E 59th Street, New York,
September 27, 2014, Camerama Photo Show
www.usphotoshows.com/index.html
The Photographic
Historical Society of Canada presents…
Days Hotel & Conf. Centre, 185 Yorkland Blvd.
Saturday, April 12, and Sunday April 13, 2014,
10 AM to 3 PM, Admission: $7.00 per person
Photographica 81, Americal Civic Center,
October 10-12, 2014, PhotoHistory XVI
467 Main St, Wakefield MA 01880, starts 9:00am
George Eastman House in Rochester, New York
Saturday, April 26, 2014,
Three days of lectures, reception and trade show.
Bill Belier Memorial
Sunday, October 26, 2014, PHSC Fall Fair,
Symposium, Art Gallery of
Soccer Centre, 7601 Martin Grove Rd., Willowdale.
Ontario, five lectures
10:00AM to 3:00PM, entry fee $7.00
register at PHSC.ca
th
nd
Sunday, April
2014,
A PHSC
40 27,
Anniversary
Symposium & 2 Sunday
Annual
Image
Show
October,
2014,
Michigan PHS
PHSC Image Show Sale,
Photographica Show & Sale,
A Bill Belier Memorial Event
Canadian Legion #101 3850
Royal Oak Elks Lodge 2401 E. Fourth Street Royal
Celebrating
40 years
of history, research and photographicOak,
education
in Canada,
the
Lakeshore Blvd.
West
MI. 10:00AM
to 3:00PM,
admission $6.00
Photographic
Historical
Society of Canada presents a Symposium that will highlight several
Toronto, Ont.
M8W 1R3.
~LOOKING at CANADA~
aspects of Canadian photographic history, including new research on photographers working in
Canada, contemporary photographers working with historic processes and still photography in
cinema.
FROM THE NET
Here is the latest news from
CNET-Asia.
Most updates of the Nikon D4S
are subtle. Although the sensor
remains the same resolution, combined with the new processing, the
camera’s now rated up to ISO
409600, one stop beyond its predecessor. The D4S now has an auto
ISO setting to allow for automatically preserving consistent exposures when shooting video or time
lapse; you can now shoot up to
9,999 frames in the latter as well.
There’s also a new 12-bit uncompressed small raw file size. And the
battery life jumps if you switch to
the new, higher-capacity EL-EN18a
battery, though it remains compatible with the D4’s EL-EN18. The
Ethernet connection gets a speed
boost, too, jumping to 1000BaseT.
The only really visible change to the
design is the more durable, textured
surface of the subselector and multiselector joysticks. The front grip is
slightly deeper and there’s a better
grip on back for vertical shooting.
Ricoh goes for the Go-Pro crowd
to sell its rugged cameras. The
WG-4 GPS and WG-4 (one has
GPS, one doesn’t) are incremental
updates to their predecessors.
These updates have the same fast
by Robert Lansdale
4x f2.0-4.9 25-100mm lens with
sensor-shift and digital image stabilization, and 16-megapixel backside-illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor. They also have the same ring of
six LEDs around the lens for macro
photography (they can focus as
close as 0.4-inch from a subject).
Also, on the back you’ll find the
same 3-inch 460K-dot-resolution
LCD with 170-degree horizontal and
vertical viewing angles and, on the
front of the GPS version, the same
small LCD display for reading time,
pressure, and altitude info.
Ricoh announced the WG-20 for
the adventurer (or the klutz) on a
budget. Coming in at US$199.95,
the body is waterproof to 33 feet;
shockproof against drops up to 4.9
feet; dust-proof; freeze-proof down
to 14 degrees Fahrenheit; and
crushproof, withstanding up to 220
foot-pounds of force. Outside of the
rugged construction, though, the
camera is fairly unremarkable with a
14-megapixel CCD sensor and 5x,
f3.5-5.5, 28-140mm lens.
With non-professional consumers in mind, Olympus announced
the OM-D E-M10. The new interchangeable lens camera (ILC)
shares the retro looks of the E-M1
and M5, but in a more compact
form including a built-in flash.
Available in black or silver, the
M10’s design will appeal to those
who like the looks of the M1 and M5
ILCs. Compared with the earlier
OM-D cameras, however, the M10
is much smaller. In fact, the body
alone is about the same size as the
Olympus Stylus 1, the company’s
latest long-zoom compact. It isn’t
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the Stylus 1 weighs 402g.
The Olympus M10 will launch
together with a new 14-42mm F3.55.6 kit lens, as well as a new fisheye
body cap lens with an F8.0 fixed
aperture. It will come in either black
or white. The camera and accessories will be available in February.
Panasonic has decided to up
the ante in the mirrorless ILC market
by introducing its first DSLM with
4K video recording capability. In
case you are wondering, Digital
Single Lens Mirrorless (DSLM) is
what Panasonic calls its mirrorless
interchangeable lens cameras
(ILCs).
The DMC-GH4, successor of the
DMC-GH3, has an improved image
processor that allows high-speed
signal processing required for 4K
video recording. The 16.05-megapixel camera boasts a maximum
video resolution of 4,096 x 2,160
(Cinema 4K), which is a significant
improvement over its predecessor’s
1,920 x 1,080 resolution, but it can
only record at a maximum of 30fps
-- falling short behind the standard
60fps for smooth and professional
videography.
Our thanks to CNET-Asia available at http://asia.cnet.com/
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Indiana Man Accidentally Makes a Great Discovery
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 6. – Throughout the
country photographers are interested in the discovery of S. B. Hargreaves, an architect and photographer of this city. Hargreaves has uncovered the secret of color photography, and last night, before an
audience of prominent scientific people of the state,
demonstrated his process and its accuracy. The demonstration was conducted in the photo-engraving department of an Indianapolis newspaper and proved
beyond doubt that the inventor has achieved success
in discovering the secret which has heretofore baffled
all photographic investigators and experimenters.
Hargreaves’ discovery was due, in the first place,
to an accident. While engaged in the work of making exposures by means of the wet-plate process he
accidentally spilled a coat of sensitive solution over
the surface of a thin plate mirror. This aroused his
curiosity as to what action the light would have on
a mirrored coated in this manner, and Hargreaves
accordingly placed the coated glass in a plate holder and exposed it in the usual manner.
On flowing the negative thus secured with a developing solution he was surprised to see a sharp,
clear image suddenly appear on the mirror brilliantly colored with all the colors of the object he
had photographed.
Before he could recover from his bewilderment
the color slowly faded from the plate, leaving only
a blackened film with patches of a bright mirrored
surface showing through here and there. This action
of the chemicals aroused his Hargreaves’ mind a series of questions the solutions to which he immediately set about to discover.
What had produced the colored image? Had he
really discovered the process of color photography
so long sought for?
What caused the colors to immediately fade?
Hargreaves went to work to complete his accidental discovery.
After a series of unique experiments he has been
successful in perfecting the long-sought-for art of
color photography.
His patent papers have been granted. Eastern
capitalists have agreed to finance the manufacture
of the invention, which will, within a short time, be
placed upon the market.
The possibilities of this wonderful invention are
most extraordinary.
By it the photographer will be enabled to produce exactly all of nature’s most delicate colorings
and tints, the gay colors of flowers, the brilliant
plumage of feathered songsters, the gold of a sunset, the rich colorings of the world masterpieces and
even the maiden’s blush, without losing one iota of
detail expression, shadow or coloring, just as it is
portrayed to the human eye.
This wondrous announcement
was first published in the St. Louis Globe–Democrat of December
6, 1902 and reproduced in the St.
Louis and Canadian Photographer of January 1903. Other papers undoubtedly used the story
for we found it also in the
Otago Daily Times of July 2,
1903.
The public was clamoring
for coloured pictures as it had
been common, for some time,
to see coloured reproduction
in books, magazines and as art
pieces. But pictures produced
by the engraving process certainly were not conducive to
still photography at the time.
The lengthy process of assembling three colour-separated
images with printing inks was
not achievable for portraiture of
the human face.
Such stories of new colour
photography were readily picked
up by newspaper editors and eagerly gobbled up by the public.
But all too often they were found
to be wanting or a scam.
But the story did say that Hargreaves (Sears Belknap) had demonstrated the process before a scientific audience proving beyond
doubt his process and its accuracy.
The story also indicated that his
patent papers had been granted.
We decided see if this was true
and delved into the patents of the
United States and then those of
Canada and the United Kingdom.
Although “Hargeaves” as a name
does pop up during the early
1900s, there is nothing that can
be found for S. B. Hargreaves or
for colour photography.
It must be just another scam!
Louise Freyburger searched
Ancestry.ca and found a Sears
Belknap Hargreaves born September 24, 1878 in Indianapolis,
Indiana. In 1900 he had a directory listing as a timekeeper and for
1901 to 1903 as a clerk. Finally
in 1904 and 1905 there is a listing as a photographer – probably
working for someone else. In the
1909 directory he is indicated as
a chemist for the Coal Tar Products Co. But such a listing may
have been enumerated in the latter part of 1908. No company by
that name can be found in the directory. On May 3rd, 1909 there
is a death certificate issued for
Sears B. Hargreaves (corrected
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from Hargrave). He had died in
the St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky from “injuries
from falling from a scaffold at
the Elks Club room.” On the certificate he is given the occupation
of "painter."
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911).
#DeathKYVR_7011809-0359 - Copy, Kentucky Dept for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Dec.6,1902
The most intriguing entry
is that of 1905 where he is imprisoned in Fort Leavenworth
Penitentiary as inmate #4693,
convicted of impersonating a
government official, namely an
Army officer. Hargreaves’ excuse was that he had been with a
theatrical troupe in Illinois which
disbanded and left him without
money or clothing. He only had
the uniform of a lieutenant in the
regular army, having portrayed
a lieutenant in the play. Through
such circumstances he continued
to wear the uniform and gave lectures in various small towns in the
state. He said he had no intention
of deceiving the public but people
treated him so well he allowed the
impression to stand. The judge apparently was not altogether satisfied with his story and gave him a
year in the penitentiary.
Now this reportage of the trial
does not balance with our previous data and no indications of a
"theatrical troupe from Illinois."
Could the reporter have confused
it with a case later in the same
hearings where E.M. Beecher
was convicted of fraudulently
selling outfits for colouring photographs for $2.00 representing
that he would buy back, at 2 cents
apiece, all pictures coloured with
his outfit. It was said that colouring photographs with the outfit
was somewhat similar to making bricks without straw. Further
newspaper accounts of the trial,
however, corroborate the court
report's correctness.
/RL
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For Sale
Large selection of cabinet cards,
CDVs, lantern slides, stereoviews,
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Wonderlust, Our fourth solo exhibition of work by Sarah Anne
Johnson, which addresses the psychology and physicality of intimacy.
In “Wonderlust,” Johnson intends
these photographs to “explore the
internal world of sexual intimacy.
To show what it looks and feels
like. Some of these images represent desires for romance, ecstasy
and emotional connection, while
others depict boredom, self doubt
and personal disappointment.”
March 1 – March 29, 2014.1026
Queen Street West, Toronto.
THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
Wildlife Photographer of the
Year, This internationally renowned
photography competition celebrates nature and wildlife featuring
100 breathtaking photos selected
from over 43,000 entries from
around the world Until March 23,
2014. Centre Block, Level 3, 100
Queen's Park, Toronto.
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE
Robert Burley: the Disappearance
of Darkness examines both the
dramatic and historical demise of
film-manufacturing facilities and
industrial darkrooms. Starts
January 22, 2014. Free Admission,
33 Gould St., Toronto. See www.
ryerson.ca/ric/
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE
Phil Bergerson: Emblems and
Remnants of the American Dream
Since 1995, Canadian photographer
Phil Bergerson has made dozens of
extended road-trips, criss-crossing
the United States in search of the
‘American Dream.’ Starts January
22, 2014. Free Admission, 33
Gould St., Toronto. See www.
ryerson.ca/ric/
CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES
Life on the Grid: 100 years of
street photography in Toronto.
With images ranging from the accidental to the deliberate, this exhibit
highlights the wide variety of street
photography in the holdings of the
City of Toronto Archives. Until May,
2014. 255 Spadina Rd., Monday to
Friday 9 AM to 4.30 PM.
“SOCCER: CANADA’S
NATIONAL SPORT”
by PHSC's own
LES JONES
“A remarkable achievement and
the first Canadian coffee-table
book on The Beautiful Game”
More info and how to order at:
Wanted
canadiansoccerstories.com
GEH Looking for
Antique Plate Holders
An entertaining, over-sized publication covering 150 years of soccer in
Canada
Mark Osterman of George Eastman
House writes:
We are looking for 4x5 glass negative holders for the gelatin dry plate
workshops held at George Eastman
House in Rochester, NY. Contact
me if you have any to spare.
Mark Osterman: mosterman@geh.org
Wanted
Well-heeled private collector will
pay CASH for your photographic
collections and estates. Nothing
too big or too small. Contact John
Kantymir at 905-371-0111 or
Niagaracc@gmail.com.
Wanted
Bicycle & Motorcycle photography
– all related items. Contact Lorne
Shields, P.O. Box 87588, 300 John
St. P.O., Thornhill, ON., L3T 7R3,
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NOTE LOCATION CHANGE !
Toronto Spring
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Sunday, March 30, 2014,
10:00 AM - 3 PM
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6700 Trans Canada Hwy,
Pointe-Claire. Quebec
10 AM to 3 PM, Admission:
$7.00 per person
Mark your Calendars for the
" BI G ON E !"
PHSC Spring Fair
Sunday, May 25, 2014
at the Soccer Centre, Toronto
Vancouver Camera
Show and Swap Meet
Sunday, April 24, 2014,
10:00 AM - 4 PM
Cameron Rec. Centre
9523 Cameron at Lougheed Mall,
Burnaby, BC
FREE PARKING - ADMISSION $5
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shaw.ca
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