PHSC - Index to past programs and information on our monthly meetings

Meetings begin at 7:00 pm every third Wednesday (except July and August) in the North York Central Library "Click for Map"Memorial Hall (Gold Room), 5120 Yonge at Park Home, North York, Ontario.

There is inexpensive parking underground off Park Home and ready access from the Yonge St TTC Subway at the North York Centre station.

Please check the home page announcement or the latest PHSC E-Mail Newsletter for notice of any meetings not held at the above venue. When meetings are held at other venues, the informal buy and sell session is cancelled.

Buy & sell sessions opens each meeting at 7:00 pm. Tables are available to members on a first come first served basis. The buy and sell seesions offer everything from the mundane to the rare. I once bought a rare Pantoscop lens by Emil Busch. The c1870 brass lens is the first true anastigmat wide angle lens design with a plate coverage of 80 degrees - equal to about a 24mm lens on a Leica.

Join our next meeting and bring something to swap or sell... but be ready to pick up something interesting for your collection too!

Presentations begin at 8:00 pm with the introduction of our speaker. Most talks are accompanied by sildes and last about 60 minutes followed by a question & answer seesion. The eclectic program of guest speakers covers topics of interest to photo historians as well as camera and image collectors.

Our monthly program is announced in advance on the web and in the PHSC E-Mail Newsletter (all issues are available on this site).

Past Programs are presented on the web and in our publications. Individual pages have been posted for most speakers back to October 1999. The table at the right gives a list of our speakers since September 1996 and links to further information.

Month	Speaker - Topic

Our society has always offered a good speaker program each year. Beginning September 1996, I have listed the speakers here on our web site. In October 1999, I started photographing most of our presentations using a digital camera and used some of the images along with my notes to make a summary page for each presentation. You can click on the "Year" heading to see a page listing the entire program for that period along with a brief description of each talk. Most of the individual Speaker: Topic entries beginning with October 1999 have links to a full page of images and notes. Our journal, Photographic Canadiana, and our free e-mail newsletter also provide information on the various presentations.
2011	May 2010 to April 2011
January	Mark Cruz: Nikon SLR Video
February	Dr Norman Ball: Niagara Falls: A Story of Crazies, Improbabilities and Photographers
March	Maggie Habieda: Wedding Photography
April	Heather Morton: Artist's Portfolios: Marketing in the Digital Age
May	Amanda Rataj: The Albumen Printing Process.
June	Andrew Stawicki: The PhotoSensitive Group
September
October
November
December
2010	May 2010 to April 2011
January	James Trautman: On Aerial Photography
February	Lorne Shields: An Anaglyph 3D Show of Bicycle Photographic History
March	Andrzej Maciejewski: After Notman - Rephotographing Montreal
April	Don Long: and whether pigs have wings
May	Rick Bell: Adventures in Photography
June	GTCCC: Slide show - 2010 Interclub competition
September	Carl Mills: 100th Anniversary of Flight over Montreal & Toronto
October	Paul Pasquarello: Panorama Stereo - with a pair of Hasselblad XPan Cameras
November	Julienne Pascoe: The Samuel Bourne Albums
December	Various Members: Show and Tell 2010
2009	May 2009 to April 2010
January	Joan Schwartz: Photographic Sleuthing: Archival Stories and Academic Tales
February	Maia Sutnik: A Night at the Gallery (AGO) with Maia Sutnik
March	Andrew Patrick (Epson): Fine Digital Printing
April	Michael Torosian (Lumiere Press): Making Limited Edition Photography Books
May	Tony Makepeace: Quicktime Virtual Reality Panoramas
June	Reg Holloway: Pictures in the Paper - beginnings of press photography
September	Terence Dickinson: Photographing the Night Sky
October	Andy Stein: The History of Henry's - Photographic Retailing
November	Larry Frank: Visual Bandwidth and the Art of Photography
December	Various Members: Show and Tell 2009
2008	May 2008 to April 2009
January	Rafael Goldchain: Recent Shifts in Photographic Education (@ Sheridan)
February	Vincenzo Pietropeolo: Not Paved with Gold
March	Rob Skeoch: Observations of a large format photographer
April	Gerry Loban: Loban on Leica - 1913 to 1935 - innovations and impacts
May	Dr Irwin Reichstein: The Multigraph
June	Paul Pasquarello: My Two new Best Friends - or I'm in love with Anna Morfix
September	Chris Schneberger: Stereo Stories
October	Paul Burns: Origins of Images and the Beginnings of Cinematography
November	Felix Russo: Modern Panorama Technology - The Broader View
December	Clint Hryhorijiw: Annual Show & Tell, and gift exchange Ed Warner: Silent Auction from PHSC holdings
2007	May 2007 to April 2008
January	Larry O’Grady: History and Applications of Photography in the Toronto Police Service
February	Robert Burley: Back to the Future: Photography in the 21st Century
March	Wayne Morgan: Palmer Cox, the Brownie Craze, and the Brownie Camera
April	Gerald Loban: Old-Time Photo - the art of making antique portraits
May	Maia Sutnik: Photography at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario)
June	Movie Night (Donald Brittain, NFB): Dreamland: A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895 - 1939
September	Gordon Brown: Photography BC and AD - the digital evolution
October	Elizabeth Brayer: The Prodigious life of George Eastman
November	Silvano Venuto: Recent Changes in the Professional Photographic Lab
December	Members: Show and Tell 2007
2006	May 2006 to April 2007
January	Maayan Kasimov & Rob Norton: Ambrotypes - History and Modern Production
February	Carson Jones of Joneshouse: The Production of Modern Digital Prints
March	Tom Bochsler: celebrates 50 years in Professional Photography.
April	Laura Jones: Women in Photography.
May	Stan White: 1980s Retrospective in Stereo
June	MaryAnn Camilleri: Carte Blanche & Magenta Foundation.
September	Wolfgang & Mary Ann Sell: History of View-Master
October	Lesley Sparks: World Press Photo 2006
November	Les Jones: History of Photography in 45 minutes (plus Hot-air Balloon slide show)
December	Members: Show and Tell 2006
2005	May 2005 to April 2006
January	Movie-Nite Colin Low (Director, NFB): Moving Picture
February	Robert Gutteridge: The Holland Brothers
March	Mary Ledwell: Archives of Ontario Photographic Holdings
April	Gerry Loban: The Evolution of Portraiture
May	Michael Reichmann Video: Dags and Digital
June	Jim Jensen: Of One Cloth
September	Matt Isenburg: Ramblings and Recollections - Matt Isenburg on Modern day Collecting
October	William Mokrynski: Pin-holes and Panoramas
November	David W Lewis: The Art of Bromoil & Transfer
December	Members: Show and Tell 2005
2004	May 2004 to April 2005
January	Albert Kish (Director, NFB): Notman's World
February	Clint Hryhorijiw, Moderator: IMPROV at the GOLD ROOM
March	Peter Little: THE MOVE TO DIGITAL
April	Jorge DaSilva: THE DIGITAL SLR
May	Mike Robinson: HISTORY in the MAKING: CONTEMPORARY DAGUERREOTYPES
June	George Gilbert: THE HIDDEN LEICA STORY, part 2
September	Karen Shopsowitz: MY FATHER'S CAMERA (NFB Video)
October	Lorne Shields: EARLY CYCLING PHOTOGRAPHY
November	Members: SHOW AND TELL 2004
December	Bill Kantymir, Ed Warner & Team: (Not SO) Silent Auction - the Sequel
2003	May 2003 to April 2004
January	George Hunter: TALES OF A PHOTOGRAPHER
February	Lansdale, Kantymir, Wilson, Carter, Loban: QUARTET - HIGHLIGHTS of the SHEAN AUCTION
March	Gerry Loban: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
April	Bill Belier: A TREASURE FROM MY COLLECTION
May	Larry Gubas: HISTORY OF ZEISS
June	Alf Pyner: FROM DUFAYCOLOR TO ILFOCHROME
September	Bill Kantymir, Ed Warner, & Team: (Not SO) SILENT AUCTION - SHEAN
October	Michael Mitchell: MONSTERS - the photographs of Chas. Eisenmann
November	Paul Hoeffler: DOCUMENTING THE JAZZ SCENE
December	Members: SHOW AND TELL 2003
2002	May 2002 to April 2003
January	Peter Sinclair: MODERN 3D IMAGES
February	Grant Romer: REFLECTIONS ON THE DAGUERREOTYPE
March	PBS Video: WIZARD OF PHOTOGRAPHY
April	Robert Gutteridge: My Film Career - April 17th, 2002
May	John Linsky: Threesome George Dunbar: Twenty/Twenty
June	Bill Becker: The 10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time
September	Dr. Jennifer McKendry: EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY IN KINGSTON
October	Simon Bell: CHARIOTS OF CHROME - Classic American Cars of Cuba (in stereo)
November	Stephen Bulger: THE VALUE OF THE IMAGE
December	Members: SHOW AND TELL 2002
2001	May 2001 to April 2002
January	Nick Graver: PHOTOGRAPHIC NUMISMATICS
February	Members:SHOW AND TELL
March	Boris Spremo: PHOTOJOURNALIST
April	Keith Davis: HALLMARK CARDS IMAGE COLLECTION
May	Lindsay Lambert:PROF. LAMBERT'S MAGIC LANTERN SHOW
June	Janice Schimmelman: THE IRON PLATE IN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
September	Larry Boccioletti: 50 YEARS OF COLLECTING
October	Stan White: PSA HALL OF FAME #8 (1997) and WHIMSY
November	Andrew Rodger: NATIONAL ARCHIVES
December	Members: SHOW AND TELL NIGHT 2001
2000	May 2000 to April 2001
January	Jim Williamson: THE CBC's CANADIAN HISTORY PROJECT
February	Members: SHOW AND TELL NIGHT
March	Chris Moore: CANADA: OUR CENTURY
April	Matthew R. Isenburg: THE EVOLUTION OF THE CAMERA
May	David Wooters - George Eastman House: TREASURES FROM THE IMAGE ARCHIVE
June	Christopher Mahoney: SOTHEBY'S AUCTIONS
September	Bill Mair Collection: SILENT AUCTION
October	George Dunbar: 45 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
November	Ken Nelson: DTDFU
December	Robert Gutteridge: THE BEAVERTON PROJECTOR
1999	May 1999 to April 2000
January	Frances Rooney: THE WANDERING LIFE OF EDITH S. WATSON
February	Members: SHOW AND TELL
March	Dane Lanken: MONTREAL MOVIE PALACES
April	Paul Berg: DATING AND EVALUATING UNION CASES
May	Todd Gustavson: THE CAMERAS OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE
June	Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr.: My 37 YEARS OF COLLECTING
September	Executive: THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PHSC
October	Stan White: STEREO NIGHT
November	Peter Higdon: MIRA GODDARD STUDY CENTRE PRINT COLLECTION
December	Lorne Shields: BICYCLES AND PHOTOGRAPHY
1998	May 1998 to April 1999
January	Alf Pyner: ON AERIAL CAMERAS
February	Robert Gutteridge: EARLY CINEMAS IN TORONTO
March	Dick Haviland: FILMS FOR CLASSICS
April	Members: SHOW AND TELL
May	Roger Watson: THE EARLIEST IMAGES OF NIAGARA FALLS
June	Mark Osterman & France Scully Osterman: REVIVING A LOST ART--THE COLLODION JOURNAL
September	John Waldsmith: PRICING STEREOPHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTABLES
October	Craig Campbell: HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
November	Joan Severa: DATING YOUR IMAGES
December	Steven Bulger: EVALUATING AND COLLECTING PRINTED IMAGES
1997	May 1997 to April 1998
January	M. Jackson Samuels CSC: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CINEMATOGRAPHER
February	Bob Carter: TAKE A WALK ON THE WEB SITE
March	Ross, Brown & Oesch: MEMBER'S MONTH
April	Elizabeth Hulse & Les Jones: RENAISSANCE MAN: SIR DANIEL WILSON 1816-1892
May	David Jentz: EYEING THE RETINA
June	Robert Stacy: REMARKABLE PORTRAITS OF MAUNGWUDAUS
September	Simon Bell: STEREO CLOSE UPS
October	Michael Pritchard: CHRISTIE'S AUCTION HOUSE
November	John Denison: PHOTOGRAPHER ON VACATION--MICKLETHWAITE'S MUSKOKA
December	Denis Farley and Yvonne Lammerich: CAMERA OBSCURA
1996	May 1996 to April 1997
January	WEEGEE by WEEGEE. a tongue in cheek movie about New York's nortorious newspaper photographer
February	John Gallero, Patrick MacCulloch: THE MAGIC LANTERN SHOW
March	Ken Heaman: NO PLACE LIKE HOME - Ontario interiors 1880 - 1920
April	Nora Hague: THE CANADIAN IMAGE - the story behind William Notman
May	Joe Bailey: LITTLE KNOWN THINGS ABOUT UNKNOWN PEOPLE - the history of 35 mm camera in the USA
June	Jim Stone: THE LONGEST AND THE OLDEST - 200th anniversry of Yonge St
September	Sam Smith: STEREOS WITH HOME-MADE CAMERAS
October	Ron Brown: SHADOWS OF THE PAST
November	Philippe Maurice: A WESTERN PERSPECTIVE
December	Reg Holloway: PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS & CAMERAS OF ENGLAND
1995	May 1995 to April 1996
September	Gillian Readyhoff: THE BIG PICTURE - Panoramic Photography in Toronto > 1903
October	George Gilbert: IDENTIFYING THE 1st PERON TO APPEAR IN A DAGUERREOTYPE a clever piece of detective work...
November	Keith Strata, Robert Gutteridge: LIGHTS!, CAMERA!, ACTION! - 100 years of cinematography - collecting movie theatre artifacts
December	Fritz Shulze: A to Z of ZEISS