TORONTO, Sunday, September 21, 2008. Rafael Goldchain, who gave an exciting talk at our January 2008 meeting, has his book launch at David Mirvish Books, 596 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 2L8, from 2pm to 4pm on Sunday, September 21st. "I Am My Family" is a family album of traditional portrait photographs with an unconventional twist: the only subject is Goldchain himself. In an elaborate process involving genealogical research, the use of makeup, hair styling, costume, and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors and captures their personifications with the camera. Taking some liberties with historical accuracy, Goldchain has assembled a fascinating cast of characters: from his short-story-writing grandfather, to his great-aunts Pola and Fela, to the Gur Rabbi's nephew and his bride Rachelle, Goldchain reinvents himself over and over again. These beautifully reproduced self-portraits trace the evolution of Jewish culture from tradition to modernity and invite us to engage the history of a family decimated and scattered by the traumatic events of the 20th century. Featuring an essay by art historian and curator Martha Langford, the portraits are complemented by a selection of the archival images and selections from the artist's sketchbooks.

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TORONTO, Thursday, October 2, 2008. World Press Photo Foundation 08 Exhibition opens in Toronto at the Allen Lambert Galleria in Brookfield Place at the foot of Bay Street in downtown Toronto. Lesley Sparks, who spoke to us in October 2006 on her success in bringing the world famous annual World Press Photo exhibition to Toronto, has once again accepted the challenge of mounting this exhibition of world famous press images. The image at the left is a portrait of an Afghan woman in Kabul, taken by Lana Slezic of Mississauga who is currently living in Delhi, India. The exhibition runs to October 22nd. Be sure to catch it - click Lana's image at left for details.

BUFFALO, Thursday, September 12, 2008. 3-Dimenstional Photo Perspective: People, Places and Things opens at Elmwood Framing and Interiors, the Stuyvesant Gallery, 245 Elmwood Av, Buffalo NY. Our June Speaker, Paul Pasquarello, is showing a selection of his wide angle stereo images in the form of three foot wide anaglyph prints. The images were recorded on Fuji slide film, scanned into Photoshop, stretched to the anamorphic ratio, converted to anaglyphs and printed on an Epson 44" printer. The prints were then laminated with a matt UV laminate and mounted to 3/8" Gatorfoam and framed. Paul made about 100 Anaglyph "opera" glasses "on a (chop)stick" for viewing. The show ends October 24th. If you are in Buffalo, Paul invites you to drop by and see his striking large size stereo anaglyphs. Click the icon at left to see the advertising card for the show.

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BARCELONA, SPAIN, Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Pere Pons, a retired photographer emailed me for information on the Schlichter photometer that John Linsky presented in our 2004 Show and Tell. I passed Pere over to John and hopefully John can share what information he has on this odd photometer. Meantime, I looked at Pere's web site and he has done a marvellous job. Much of the site uses Flash/Shockwave to give a smooth operation. The images of items in his collection are striking works of art. Click the image at the left and have a peek at a professional photographer's collection website.

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HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA, Tuesday, August 26, 2008. While browsing Pere Pons' site, I came across a short message left by Seth Broder of Florida. His site is also of interest. Seth deals in old collectible cameras. His site has scans of many old catalogues showing most the pages, not just cover shots. Click the image at left (from a 1909 Zeiss catalogue) and take a peek at the Camera Eccentric website. Click on the "Info on Camera Equip." button on the Camera Eccentric web site to see the catalogues on the site.

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ST CATHARINES, Monday, August 4, 2008. Arden Phair, Curator of Collections, St. Catharines Museum tells us that the museum will be launching a special exhibition "Niagara through the Lens: the shots that set The Standard". It opens September 13th and runs until November 2nd, 2008. Featured are award-winning photographs by St. Catharines Standard photojournalists over the period of 1936 to 2008. They are drawn from the newspaper's archive of some 600,000 images (recently donated to the museum). Award winning Standard Chief Photographer, Denis Cahill, (with the paper for 43 years) will be giving a lecture about photojournalism. A special book is planned to showcase the images and other aspects of photography and the newspaper. Publication will be by Vanwell Publishing Ltd. in St Catharines.

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TOKYO, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Sam Mabuchi of the Japan Hand Made Camera Club advised Bob Lansdale that his club in collaboration with the Japan Camera Industry Institute have a special exhibit of some 100 hand made cameras and sample photographs on display until August 31, 2008. See Photographic Canadiana 31-2 and 32-2 for information on this unusual camera club. If you are planning to visit Tokyo this month, drop by the JCII Museum and have a peek. Click the image at the left for more information. on the cameras and on the right to go the JCII Museum website.

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OTTAWA, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The National Film Board of Canada has been famous over the years for its innovative shorts and animations, such as La Salla, the source of the icon at left. Click on the icon to see the NFB's experimental "beta" website offering a variety of their movies. La Salla is a computer generated comic opera from 1996.

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TORONTO, Monday, July 21, 2008. Photographic Canadiana columnist George Dunbar often sends us a note about interesting sites he has come across. In mid July, I received this typically terse email message: "Have you seen the George Eastman House images on Flickr? Go to: http://flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house. Amazing old photos, some in colour!". And George was right on. Have a look at these images GEH posted from its extensive collection of historic old photos. Well worth the visit! (left - woman in satin dress, right - Princess Victoria of Russia).

And for a look at the next generation of photographers, take a peek at the Sheridan College Students' web sites. We were introduced to these young photographers last January by Rafael Goldchain.

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St GEORGE, ONTARIO, June 22nd, 2008. Serengeti Press and The Book Band announce the publication of long time PHSC member Stan White's book, Four Solitudes. It was launched at the St. George Lawn Bowling Club (Thompson and West Streets in St. George) Mr. White gave a short reading. In his new book of poetry, S.J. White focuses his photographer’s eye on the solitude that can confront everyman, and gathers it into four aspects of experience. Four Solitudes, published by Serengeti Press (www.serengetipress.ca ), reflects the brilliance of nature (“… the sky distilled / into its elemental light”), murmurs the words of trees (“I am the seed the need the forest breed”), and explores the intricacies of old age, place, time and space. In addition to his poetry and fiction writing, Stan White has an international reputation for his stereo photography.

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EULOGY FOR Dr. WALTER MANDLER 1922 - 2005. Rolf Fricke, the well respected authority on the Leica camera, has
generously permitted the PHSC to reproduce his Eulogy to Dr. Walter Mandler, the famous Leitz lens designer who lived in Midland, Ontario, Canada after emigrating from post war Germany.

At Leitz Midland, Dr. Mandler designed a large number of lenses for screw-mount, M-series and R-series Leicas as well as special lenses for the US Military. If you owned a Leica camera in the past fifty years, you likely used one of Dr. Mandler's lens designs.

<< Click on the image to see the Eulogy

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