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AUCTION - Sunday, JUNE 6 2010

The PHSC Auction Team will host a SPECIAL STORE CONTENTS AUCTION to be held just over a week from now on Sunday June 6, 2010 at the Canadian Legion Hall, 1395 Lake Shore Bl West, Toronto. Click the thumbnail at left for our auction page and more details.

NOTE: We have uploaded another eleven pictures of some of the goods to be auctioned. Click the thumbnail at left to visit the auction page. Click any thumbnail on the auction page to see a larger view of the image.

NEXT TORONTO MEETING - Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
HEATHER MORTON: Artist’s Porfolios - Marketing in the Digital Age

Ms Morton is a Toronto based Art Buyer. What is that, you ask? Well, this is her reply; "Art Buying refers to the act of securing still imagery for Commercial use. In a nutshell, I help advertising agencies and design firms find the right photographer or illustrator for their concept and manage the process of producing that image.

"The Art Buyer fulfills two important but different functions. On one hand, it is a creative role- collaborating with the Creative Team to source the right creative supplier takes a keen interpretive eye combined with a comprehensive knowledge of current photography and illustration trends and styles. In a completely different way, an Art Buyer is also a Project Manager."

Join us and see how this aspect of Commercial photography has changed with the evolution of digital technologies.

The public is welcome. Go to our Programs page for times and directions (at the top of the left side bar on that page).

June 1, 2010. NETHERLANDS. If you saw Don Long's talk and his comments on Polaroid and The Impossible Project, you might enjoy this short video on the Monocle site.

September 10 - 12, 2010 YARKER, ONTARIO. The Out In The Sticks Cultural Centre at 2838 County Road 6 in Yarker (near Kingston) hosts PHANTASMAGORIA 2010, the annual 3 day arts festival which includes open-air concerts, film and art slide shows, exhibitions and installation shows. Submissions requested.

Bob Lansdale Clicks Again!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 20, 2009

Yes, that camera-carrying photographer with flash in hand has taken a plethora of new photos at the 2009 Daguerreian Society Symposium in Philadelphia! They are available for you to review and have prints made of the ones you like.

Bob Lansdale, official photographer for the Daguerreian Society, has captured many of us in the act - of participating and enjoying the Symposium in all of its aspects. Rob McElroy has graciously supplemented the coverage with several vital images of the Spilbauer presentation.

Visit the Kodak Gallery (http://tinyurl.com/yzqsw3w) to see all the pictures!

(sign in for free to view the Gallery)

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Programs
Visit our Programs page to see the variety of presentations we offer at our monthly meetings in Toronto. Click any of the portraits below for examples of talks from the past few months:

Don Long whether pigs have...	Andrzej Maciejewski After Notman	Lorne Shields Bicycle History in 3D	Jim Trautman On Aerial Photography	Clint Hryhorijiw Show & Tell 2009
Larry Frank Visual Bandwidth	Andy Stein Henry's 100th	Terry Dickinson Night Sky	Dr Joan Schwartz Travels with Fred	Art Gallery of Ontario With Maia Sutnik

For example, at the December 2003 Show & Tell presentation we were shown a number of unusual cameras including this rare Dr. Kruegener Simplex Magazin detective camera complete with its case. Made about 1879, the camera is an example of clever engineering and beautiful construction from over a century ago. The presentation by the late Bill Kantymir included the tale of how he discovered this rare beauty. Click the image to the right to visit the December Show & Tell page for more details about this and the other interesting items presented by our members.

Remember, if you are in the Toronto area, drop in and join us. We meet the third Wednesday of each month from September through June at the North York Memorial Hall.

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Journal
Each issue of Photographic Canadiana brings you news and informative articles on cameras, images and photographers with an emphasis on Canadian stories. Four issues are published annually with mainly original articles and pictures. This original material is occasionally augmented by carefully selected articles first published in other journals.

PC 36-1 ISSUE 36-1. The latest copy of Photographic Canadiana is off to the printer. The cover picture is one of the famous Cirkut cameras so popular a century ago to record extreme panoramic landscapes and group photographs. This issue has extensive coverage of the Cirkut camera, its inventors and history including material by the late Bill McBride. Another article addresses the reason why the majority of 19th century photographers in Toronto were clustered along a few blocks of King St East. This article is followed by a discussion of the lighting used in the late 19th century studios. The rest of the 20 page journal contains the various regular columns and recent news items such as "Browsing through our Exchanges", "Toronto Notes", and President Clint's message on birthdays, auctions and fairs...

If you are a member, you will have this issue shortly. Not a member? Well we have a $35 solution for that. Go to the Membership Page for more information or click here for a form.

Clockwise from upper left: King Street East in Toronto. South side was "the" address for 19th century photographers. Notman & Fraser studio on King Street East. The famous #10 Cirkut camera and an example of the panoramas it produced - The Photographers' Association of America at St Louis in 1904.

Would you like to receive a recent issue of Photographic Canadiana? For a limited time you can e-mail your name and mailing address to info@phsc.ca and we will send you a free copy of Photographic Canadiana.

		Pictured at the left are Bob Wilson who has handled the journal packaging, pre-sort, and mailing for many years, Felix Russo, editor of PhotoEd magazine and our Program Chairman, Sascha Keller, manager of the Aries Group printers who puts ink to paper for us, and journal editor, Robert Lansdale who covers all the editing and publishing functions plus helping with the packaging of Photographic Canadiana.
L to R: Robert Wilson, Felix Russo, Sascha Keller, and Robert Lansdale

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Newsletter

This full colour newsletter is issued (usually) a week or two before our monthly meeting. It conveys late news including details about our next guest speaker, articles, advertisements, and other items of current interest. Back issues can be viewed here.

ISSUE 10-2. We open this issue with details on our June speaker, Heather Morton. Doug Napier then gives us the low down on the auction he is chairing for this Sunday, June 6th. In "From the 'Net" we learn the outcome of the auction in Austria - One of the original Daguerreotype cameras went for nearly a million dollars. And there was lots to learn at our fair last month - from old novelties to rare movie projectors to optical toys like the Polyorama Panoptique "portable diorama". These are items that you usually cannot find even in a museum. In "Notes from Ev:" written by our 96 year old editor emeritus, we learn about an old lighting accessory. And we have the usual wealth of other ideas, ads, and coming events.

If you would like to receive future copies of this free newsletter as they are released, send your request to our e-mail address, info@phsc.ca.

Clock-wise from left: Remember that joke about the moving picture machine last February? Our editor found one at our last fair! M LeMai had more rare projectors at the fair. 1934 SASHALITE flash bulb. Doug Napier wants you at our Auction on June 6th. Bob Gutteridge shows Messrs Carter and White a portable diorama from 1840. And last at the lower left, this is what kind of camera you can buy for a million dollars - an original Daguerreotype camera of 1839.

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Membership

Not a member yet? Go to the Membership Page for details or click here for a form. Mail the form and fee and relax and enjoy a year of fine articles, talks and opportunities to buy and sell the wonderful old cameras, images, books and memorabilia of photography!

If you are a member, please note renewals are due by May 1 of each year. Click here for a renewal form. We publish the expiry date for your membership just above your name on the address label of your copy of Photographic Canadiana. For example, 20080430 means Year 2008, Month April (4th month), Day 30th. A renewal form is included with issue 3 of the journal and a "second notice" with issue 4. Any questions? Contact our Membership Secretary, Wayne Gilbert.

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Events
SPRING FAIR. Be sure to join us at Canada's oldest and largest photographica fair on May 16, 2010 with antique and usable film and digital cameras plus lots of images, books, and gear for both film and digital as well as cine. A great chance to find old images too! (Picture left courtesy of John Morden).

Details are on our Fairs page where you can print off a handy poster. Once again we will be at the Soccer Centre, 7601 Martin Grove Road Just south of Highway 7 on the east side in Woodbridge, Ontario. Doors open 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM. Admission $7.00. **STUDENTS FREE with current institution ID**. Contact Clint Hryhorijiw at fair@phsc.ca for tables. We will have free bus service from the Kipling Subway Kiss-n-Ride beginning 9:30 AM and hourly thereafter.

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In Other News...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, February 11, 2009. Larry Gubas of Zeiss Historica, the club for Zeiss enthusiasts, has published two books on Zeiss products: A Survey of Zeiss Microscopes 1846 - 1945, December 2008; soft cover, 8-1/2 x 10-7/8" (21.5 x 27.5cm), 318 pages well illustrated included 157 pages color illustrations/photos. An Introduction to The Binoculars of Carl Zeiss Jena 1893-1945, September 2008, second reprint; 6 x 9", Soft cover, approx. 250 pages, paginated within chapters. Black & White photos, as well as some color. Lots of advertising from the period. Both books can be purchased from Petra Kellers at Camerabooks in Oregon.

Rochester PhotoHistory Symposium
Photo Review at the Kodak Gallery
Did you miss the symposium on October 16 - 18, 2009
across the lake in Rochester? It is held every three years
and is hosted by The Photographic Historical Society.
PHSC editor Robert Lansdale provided his talents to record
the event and his photos are here on the Kodak Gallery page
(sign in for free to view the Gallery) .

ALL THINGS KARSH

PHSC member Sheldon Chen (shelchen9210@aol.com),
famous for his collection of Karsh material,
has recently published a book of Karsh images.
"All Things Karsh" is a high quality, 500 copy limited edition book
in a fine presentation box plus a modern print of a Karsh portrait printed
from the original negative. Priced at $400 list, the run is nearly sold out.
*** Sheldon offers PHSC members a generous discount ***

TORONTO, Sunday, May 24, 2009. While attending the Toronto Postcard Club show last February, I spoke with Janet Dalton who hosts a series of Postcard and Paper Shows along with her father. Vendors at these shows often have images and photographic ephemera for sale along with the old photographic postcards. Click the image at left for a larger view, and mark you calendar to have a look at one of these upcoming shows. The Dalton web site, Postcard-Directory.com, has links to a great number of dealers. Have a look.

Coffee Mill Camera by Hijikta Kensuke

TOKYO, JAPAN, July - August 2008. In Tokyo, Japan, there is a camera club devoted to making and using unusual cameras. Editor Bob Lansdale has been in contact with Sam Mabuchi of the Japan Hand Made Camera Club which held an exhibit this past summer of the cameras and photographs created by the JHMCC members.

After the exhibit, Mr Mabuchi compiled a digital version of the catalogue which he has graciously allowed us to display. The Coffee Mill Camera at left by Hijikta Kensuke, is shown on page 3 of the catalogue. Click on the Coffee Mill image to view the catalogue slide show. In the slide show, click an image to see it enlarged, and click the left or right side of the larger image to move to the next slide.

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