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The Photographic Historical Society of Canada

Wednesday, February 21st, Meeting

PAY YOUR 2007 DUES

Robert Burley, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, will be our
February speaker covering a wide range of topics: his recent work, the newgraduate
programat
Ryerson,the
Kodak
Canada Archive (& camera
collection), the Black Star
Collection and recent
acquisitions
bytheRyersonLibrarythat
includetheGraverCollection, Spira Collection
and the Mitchell Collection.
Robert Burley is a photographer and educator
who currently teaches at
the School of Image Arts,
Ryerson University. Burley's
photographic work is widelycollected and published on
an international level.
Robert has a strong interestin the history of photography that is apparent in both
his roles of photographer
and educator. As a photogROBERT BURLEY
rapher his current project
involves the documentation of a disappearing industrial infrastructure that has
supported the production and use of traditional photographic products. He willshow recent work documenting the former Kodak Canada plant and offices.
As an educator Burley has been involved in a flurry of activity at Ryerson
University relating to photographic history. He was one of the lead faculty inthe development of a new graduate program in Photographic Preservation &Collections Management that is partnered with George Eastman House in
Rochester. Further, he has played an important role in a flurry of recent
acquisitions by Ryerson that include: The Kodak Canada Archive & Camera
Collection, The Black Star Photography Collection, and a number of librarycollections (Graver, Spira, Mitchell).
Burley's talk will introduce and discuss each of these developments; eachof which will be of great interest to the PHSC membership. ❧• When paying your membershipdues PLEASE print your membership number on the renewal
form beside your name. It makes
it easier to credit the right person.

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 or Felix
Russo, 33 Indian Rd. Cres., Toronto, ON,
M6P 2E9, Phone (416) 532-7780.

Programming Schedule:
February 21st, 2007
-Robert Burley, Asst. Professor at
Ryerson University will speak on the
topic “Back to the Future:
Photography in the 21st Century.”

March 11th, 2007 (Sunday)-PHSC Annual Auction will be held at
a new location – the Royal Canadian
Legion, Branch 11 at 9 Dawes Road.

March 21st, 2007
-Wayne Morgan will give the history
and inside story of the Kodak Brownie.

April 18th, 2007
-Gerald Loban recalls his “Adventuresin Old Time Pictures.” Also the AGM.

Ideas for monthly programs
are most welcome. Please suggest speakers, topics and eveninteresting locations to visit.

Meeting in Gold Room, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St.

Contact Program Chair Felix Russo
at (416) 532-7780 or e-mailfelix@photoed.ca.

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

FOR PROGRAM UPDATES

Since our last issue of the PHSC E-mail we now welcome to our society the following new members:#1291 - Connie Ede, Georgetown, Ontario with special Interests for photographica between 1925 and 1975. Also joining us is member #1292 Michael Furmaniak, London, Ontario whose interest codes on his application read: 1, 16, 35, 9, 10, 26, 27. Long may they enjoy their stay. ❧THE PHSC E-MAIL

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FROM THE NET
Rolf Fricke brings our previous
Net Report up-to-date by pointing
out that the take-over of 51% of precision view camera maker Sinar AG
of Switzerland by Leica Camera AG
of Germany was rescinded soonafterwards. The previous owner of
those 51% shares, Jenoptik of
Germany, still retain the aforementioned shares. No clear reasons forthe cancellation of the deal are
known to me. Off-hand it seemedthat Leica and Sinar would nicelycomplement each other in the field ofhigh-precision cameras, and thatlegendary Sinar large format cameras might eventually be equippedwith legendary Leica lenses. But it
was not to be.
Shooting digitally at high sensitivity settings usually results in pictures plagued with noise. In worst
cases, photographs look like they
have been sprinkled with sand. But
Planet82 may have the answer with
its new Single-carrier Modulation
Photo Detector (SMPD) technology.
This may become the next razzledazzle by camera distributors fortheir line of image sensors. The chip
supposedly is 2,000 times more sensitive to light, and 50 percent smaller
than current CMOS and CCD sensors. Planet82 is showcasing blackand-white, full-colour VGA, and 2megapixel colour sensors capable oftaking clear and crisp images in lowlight situations without the distortionor energy drain of a flash.
It looks like Eastman Kodak Co.
may be turning the corner as it posted its first quarterly profit in morethan two years. The world's top
maker of photographic film posted a
profit of $16 million in the OctoberDecember quarter. That comparedwith a year-ago loss of $46 million.
Kodak said it was selling its healthimaging business (created after the
discovery of X-rays in 1895) to
Canadian investment firm Onex
Corp. for up to $2.55 billion. Kodak
plans to pay down about $1.15 billion
in debt and funnel the rest of the proceeds into digital ventures - possibly
the inkjet printer market - as film
business profits continue to erode.

CEID (Canadian Electronics
Importers & Distributors) announce
that the Ricoh Caplio R5 and theCaplio 500G Wide have both
received the iF Product DesignAward for outstanding design quality
by the iF Industrie Forum Design
Hannover, Germany. The Caplio R5

ultra compact digital camera houses
a super 28mm wide-angle 7.1x optical zoom lens (28~200mm in 35 mm
camera format) stabilized with the
Ricoh CCD-shift vibration correction
method and at the heart an effective 7
Mega Pixel CCD. The Caplio R5 is an
unprecedented ultra compact neverseen before in such a small size.
Canon USA got its name into thenews in a different way when a former manager of the payroll department was charged with stealing $2.8
million from the company through acomplex scheme involving the dataprocessing of payroll accounts.
Police say that James Castellanodeliberately "inflated the state unemployment insurance tax rates so that
Canon would overpay state unemployment insurance taxes." Thestates would refund money toAutomatic Data Processing, thecompany that prepared Canon’s payroll. ADP was then supposed to passback refunds to Canon by cheque.
But Castellano supplied a letter tohave the refund cheques also issued
in his name. Castellano deposited
some of the cheques in an accountof his, telling the branch manager,"who was an acquaintance of his,that the cheques represented bonuses or commissions from Canon."
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WestLicht Auctions by end of
April will be sending out a completely revised catalogue for the next photographica auction of May 26th
2007. The best news is that it is free.
Order it online at their homepagew w w. w e s t l i c h t - a u c t i o n . c o m . In
order to add more details about thelots the catalogue now consists of atext element the size of a paperback
book and a detailed picture documentation on CD. With up to 10 individual photos per lot, it is now possible to present the 800 items thatwould have been too costly to print.
The CD is compatible with both
Windows and Apple computers.
The Art Gallery of Ontario has
donated its collection of some
110,000 slides to the Ontario
College of Art & Design (OCAD).
"We are delighted to share thisunique resource with the broader
community," said Kelly McKinley, the
AGO’s Richard & Elizabeth Currie
director, Education and Public
Programming. The slide collection
includes AGO resource slides, index
card catalogue, and the furniture thathouses them. Slides that document
the AGO Artists and Their Works
program as well as a collection oflantern slides will remain in the
AGO’s Research Library andArchives.
The International Imaging Industry
Association (I3A; www.i3a.org), theleading global association for theimaging industry, today announced
the launch of its Consumer Photo
Preservation (CPP) web site, atwww.savemymemories.org. The
site was created to educate andmotivate people to take steps to protect and preserve their digital photos- to take the mystery out of preserving digital images by revealing theneeds, risks and proper methodology for storing, cataloging and preserving digital photos, in an easy-tofollow step-by-step approach. The
new web site showcases the resultsof I3A's recent Consumer Photo
Preservation Initiative, in which
industry leaders collaborated toinvestigate the issues and develop
practical solutions for protecting
against the accidental loss of consumer's digital photos. ❧Thanks to Fastlens, Rolf Fricke & TPHS
for the collected reports and info.

COMING SOON

NEW LOCATIONCONTACT AUCTION CHAIRMAN ED WARNER AT BJWARNER@SYMPATICO.CA
or phone 905 436-9387 (Oshawa) or 416 622-0433 (Toronto)
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Editors please note: – Feel free to reproduce any part of this article or to bring it to the attention ofother photographic historical societies who may wish to participate in this far flung search.

IN SEARCH OF THE MISSINGALTAIR CAMERA
by Sam Mabuchi
Under the auspices of the Itabashi District of Tokyo
which has a long history connected with the optical andcamera industry, a world search has been launched to

Last year an exhibition, which historically reviewed the local
camera and optical industry of the district including the
Altair project, was launched on a grander scale.

In 1955, Mr. Taikichi Arae then presidentof Arae Optical, invented the quick return mirror mechanism and applied for a patent. It isa swing-back-type quick return mirror called“auto reverse mirror.” Remember the days of
the “blacked-out” viewing screen? The following year (1956) a prototype ALTAIR camera
was built and given first public exposure in
the February issue of ASAHI CAMERA magazine. The camera by Misuzu Kougaku(Misuzu Optical), was the first to make use of
the patented quick-return-mirror. Sales were tocommence in March at a price of 30,000 Yen.
C O N T I N U E D N E X T PAG E

A page from the
February 1956 issue of
ASAHI CAMERA magazine which shows
the only known drawing and photographs ofthe prototype Altair camera.

find a missing unique camera. Mr. Hagiya, editor ofClassic Camera Special is coordinating efforts to assemble details and hopefully recover the camera known as
the ALTAIR SLR.
Itabashi District has
many small “cottage” businesses producing opticalparts such as lenses,
mechanical parts screws
etc. These cottage industries also assemble binoculars and TLR camera
parts. A few large industries are also located here
such as Tokyo OpticalMfg. – later Topcon,
Bronica, Aires, Copal
Shutters, etc.

Patent Sho34-1750, dated
1959-Feb.12 for inventor
ARAE TAIKICHI, Tokyo
with drawing views of theimportant parts.

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THE MISSING ALTAIR CAMERA CONT.

However, the camera did not go into production ending with the prototype only. The existence of such a camera is proof of advanced technical expertise of that era so
the recovery of the prototype is most important to validate
historical research of the Japanese camera industry.
Many interviews of former employees and next of kinof company officials have brought forth facts and original
papers pertaining to the story. Mr. K. Nakata, who workedon the electro-plating of the top and bottom covers of the
ALTAIR SLR was interviewed. At the same time arangefinder Alta 35 was being offered by the Misuzu
company, a copy of which was presented to K. Shirai
when he went to Europe to promote camera sales. It hasoften been misconstrued that Shirai also borrowed theAltair SLR but this was firmly denied. Still there is a good
possibility that a dealer from the USA may have brought
the camera to America for the sales assessments. In
those days American Purchase Agents were like gods to
the Japanese. A small manufacturer like ARAE would
have eagerly offered the prototype in order to assist
sales promotion. So somewhere in America or Canada,
a collector may possibly have the missing ALTAIR SLR.
From gathered facts and the published photographs
the camera much resembles the external shape of theContax-S but internally is equipped with a quick-returnmirror mechanism. A memorandum left by T. Arae leads
the researchers to believe that the Altair dimensions are
the same as the Contax-S. The photographs and drawing
from the Asahi Camera magazine are the only images
that give a realistic concept of the camera.
Information can be forwarded to Sam Mabuchi atmabuchi@mvd.biglobe.ne.jp ❧Magazine introduction included a portrait of Mrs. Arae, taken by
Taikichi Arae using the protype ALTAIR SLR. It appears that theouter edges of the image are not sharp.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CANADIANA IS IN THE MAIL…

TWENTY PAGES –FOUR TIMES PER YEARALL FOR ONLY $32.00 Cdn.
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The latest issue of Photographic
Canadiana is in the mails to paid up
members of the Society. Volume 32-4
consists of 20 pages of Canadianand international photo history
plus the reports of our recent
events and programs.
John and Bill Kantymir team
up to create a new column thatwill present stories about the
many treasures within theircollections. Bob Gutteridge
brings us cinematic history
on “The Holland Brothers”
of Ottawa while John
Morden unravels details
behind a Notman painting.
Join to-day and startgetting your own copies!
See www.phsc.ca for
information and membership application. ❧CameraShopper now
on Internet
CameraShopper magazine, which is
now accessable via the internet as a
PDF Acrobat file, is offered at U.S.
$15.00 for ten e-mail issues. Its firstsuch issue reprints a story from
Photographic Canadiana Vol. 32-3
–Camera Designs of Walter Dorwin
Teague by Ralph London and Rick
Soloway. For details check their website at: www.camera-shopper.com.
The hard copy issue is still available
for $20 in the U.S. or $25 airmail to
Canada.

NEW PHOTO BOOKBY GEORGE GILBERTThe Photographic Book of Lists
was to be unveiled in January which
would finally bring together under
one cover all the indexes of key pastbooks. Such indexes will quickly
open the way for accurate sourcing
of vast historical European andAmerican guides to people andevents. The 400 pages cover a wide
variety of topic lists: 23,800 makersof photographic products; people
and events from dagerreotypy toWorld War I; 74 makers of Leica
look-alikes to 1970; lost details on
how-to in the Ansel Adams darkroom; etc. When George heard
about a new Civil War Book of Lists
he decided a similar Photographic
Book of Lists is needed. Access will
be via the internet. Price: $20.00 +$4.00 shipping. More details from
George Gilbert, 5550 Fieldston Rd.,
Bronx, N.Y. 10471

PHOTO EDUCATORS’ FORUM

ED JAMES SENDS GREETINGS

Friday, May 4th and Saturday,
May 5th, 2007 will see the annual
Photo Educators’ Forum staged at
Ryerson University in the School of
Image Arts, Toronto. Principally
groomed for teachers of photography it has a wide appeal to students
and others interested in all aspectsof photography. Key speakers Steve
Simon, David Trattles and MaryAnn
Camilleri will kick off the morning
sessions plus a short Trade Show.
Then the gathering breaks into
selected workshops. $295.00 for twodays, student $195.00. Go to the
web site for full details and registration form at www.photoeducators.ca

Ed James reports from the bald
lonely prairies of Elkhorn, Manitoba.
With over 1000 cameras in his collection he still is amazed to find newtreasures at local flea markets andchurch rummage sales. With therecent opening of a Value Village
store he has
picked up a
few middle-tohigh end point
and
shoot
35mm cameras. He stillshoots withfilm but isfinding it harder to source
out
B&W
paper for his
darkroom
ED JAMES & SEAGULL 2 1/4
printing. The
swing to digital has finally caused
him to give up shooting part time forthe newspapers after some 25 years.
Ed mentions that he recently
acquired a Seagull 21/4 camera to
replace the one he lost in the 70s. He
says: “It was really enjoyable to goout and shoot a few rolls of 120 filmwith a camera where you have to do
everything and then take it back to
the darkroom. I will continue to teachothers about old cameras and film
through school and community presentations. At a small art gallery I
recently was the follow up act to a talkon digital photography. I followed witha 100 year history on cameras andtheir advances between 1900 to 2000.
All the best to my fellow collectors.”

NIAGARA SCHOOL OF IMAGING
AUGUST 19 TO 23, 2007
Check out the new web site for
the Niagara School of Imaging whichtakes place at Brock University,
Niagara Falls, Canada from Sunday,
August 19, 2007 to Thursday, August23, 2007. Learn the latest advanced
photographic
techniques
fromexperts in all aspects of digital andfilm image making. The Niagara
School is an intensive 5-day programof hands-on creative workshops
dedicated to enhance the quality ofeducation to photographers worldwide. Check out the speakers at
http://www.NiagaraSchool.com

P H OTO G R A P H I C A
IS MOVING TO WAKEFIELD

The Photographic Historical
Society of New England announces
a new location and date for theirannual Photographica Show andSale. The two day event takes place
on Saturday, April 14 and Sunday,
April 15th, 2007 in the Americal Civic
Center, 467 Main St., Wakefield,
Massachusetts. For details contact
the society at john_dockery@hotmail.com
The PHS of New England is alsosponsoring a 15 day tour of China
including a Yangtze River cruise.
Commencing June 20th the tour willvisit Beijing, Xian, Shanghai,Suzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing plus theriver cruise. Spaces are limited as
the tour is popular with members.
Check Ed Shaw at ebshaw@bu.edu

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O B I T UA RY
Abe Feigelson who had a longand successful career in the photographic industry as president of
Canada-based Anglophoto has diedat age 90 year after a prolonged illness. Feigelson was loved andrespected by all who worked withhim. He is remembered as the leaderof one of the greatest companies of
the times. His knowledge of theindustry and especially the people init were something to aspire to. A
renaissance man with a passion for
the arts, he was also a talented
sculptor and painter. Abe was wellknown and appreciated for his uniqueand colourful sense of humour. ❧LETTER TO THE EDITOR RE: ADAMS/EISENSTAEDT EXHIBITION

Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941
Gelatin silver print, 53.6 x 73.3 cm, The Lane Collection
Used with permission of the Trustees of The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. All Rights Reserved.

Dear Editor:
What am I missing? Why was I so disappointed by thejoint Ansel Adams/Alfred Eisenstaedt exhibition at the AGO?
I've been collecting images for 20 years and shooting
photographs (not overly successfully I should add) formuch longer so I thought I could fairly appraise their work.
But I'm very much in the minority with my negative opinion.
Based on the exhibit, Adams appears to have been acompetent documentary photographer, little more. To
me, his early, soft-focus, approach left much to be
desired. If they'd have been mine I'm not sure whether I'deven have shown them to my most enthusiastic admirer.
His high contrast, often darkroom manipulated, intimate
detail shots of the 30s and 40s, in association with Group
f/64 were much more effective:
Moonrise over
Hernandez, New Mexico and Aspen, Northern New
Mexico are rightly famous. Surf Sequence, 5 shots looking down onto a beach and the incoming waves, also
stood out. However many shots of buildings and landscapes were just technically good, straight documentary

Alfred Eisenstaedt,
Examination of German Dancer in the Third Reich: A toughexamination for the dancer. Far left of the table sits Karl
Schonherr, President of the German Association of Choir
Singers and Dancers, 1934
gelatin silver print, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
anonymous gift, 2002, © Art Gallery of Ontario
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images which anyone with a good lens and a steadyhand could have (and has) taken.
I've always been impressed with Eisenstaedt's highspeed shots. Unique and well executed. But many of theprints selected for this show, to me, were not only mundane
but indifferently focused (a poor advertisement for Leica)
poorly lit and poorly composed. They served the journalistic purpose for which they were intended but lacked both
imagination and technical ability. As the man who brought
photo-journalism to America and who had over 80 LIFE
magazine covers, why was I left thinking that if the images
displayed at the AGO had been credited to say, theunknown Fred Smith, they would have been ignored.
Could someone tell me what I'm missing (apart froma brain/common sense/expertise/etc).
Les Jones (Past President PHSC)

IN RESPONSE WE HAVE THIS REPLY FROM
Maia-Mari Sutnik, Curator, Photography,
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
Dear Bob,
Thank you for bringing the unhappy Mr. Jones to myattention. As the curator responsible for his disappointing
exhibition experience, I am of course sorry that Les
found Ansel Adams and Alfred Eisenstaedt: Two Visions
lacking on several accounts. However, the issue really is
not whether his views are in the negative minority – or in
the positive majority, because either way both are only
opinions. He is, of course entitled to his. But, it does
remind me of a perceptive insight by the formidable photography collector, Sam Wagstaff, who noted:
The pleasure of looking and the pleasure of seeing,[is] like watching people dancing through an open
window.They seem a little mad at first, until you realize they hear the song that you are watching.

I feel that Les has surely watched - but not “heard”
the song he was watching. And, I mean this kind of disconnection metaphorically only. I doubt that Adams canbe considered a “documentary” photographer. At least
not in the classic sense of the assumptions attached to
documentary being a transparent message or an
account of events. The term is contentious I admit, but
the documentary approach usually references complexities of human experiences. Adams for the most is evasive of such notions. When he photographed, as an
example, Monolith - The Face of the Half Dome, heimbued the subject with a philosophical presence, onethat is transcendental – the sublime sight of a pristinenatural world, a revelation of a solid and textured presence. Adams’s ideal approach to the natural world manifested in his visionary technical virtuosity, which he pursued and taught to others – prints became his revelations, a way of seeing the world around him as a kind oftimeless wonder. This is not documentary.
Regarding Adams’s ‘soft-focus’ pictorial works, I
believe such an inclusion is warranted. The earliest pictures were taken when he was only 17 years old. And
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they provide the foundation for his future direction, shaping his early photographic contemplations and aspirations, specifically by positioning the medium as an
expressive art form. By 1940 Adams with the support ofBeaumont Newhall and David McAlpin, had firmly
secured photography into the museum art world (TheMuseum of Modern Art, NYC). That is, it took 101 years
after photography’s public announcement in Paris.
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s pursuit was significantly different
from Adams’. In 1930 the Weimar Republic’s economic
depression, fragile social climate, and complex politicalscene, provided picture content to photojournalists. As aprofession it had only gained its footing with Erich
Salomon around 1925. Taking his cue from Salomon,
Eisenstaedt’s images were not unlike small “windows”
into the world, privileging the viewer to see events he or
she did not witness first hand – only in reproduction.
Eisenstaedt had no aspirations to be a fine art photographer. There were deadlines to be met – and stories to be
told. If Examination of German Dancer in the Third
Reich, doesn’t grab you for its tense atmosphere andforegrounding of the impending disaster of Nazification, I
can only assume the indifference is because the moral
implication of such an image – as much as the greater
timeline of his formative years - are misunderstood. A
picture’s content is the communication.
As to the quality of the prints, they are the original
vintage prints produced by Eisenstaedt for his press
agency. They were much handled and used, and clearlymade under compromising circumstances. And, as suchthey are quite remarkable for having survived the eventsof WW II – furthermore, the photograph only needed tobe reproducible – not turned into a fine artistic print.
Having said that, if there was a choice between the original work and a perfected surrogate printed later, my
choice is always the original - be it scuffed or otherwise
marked its historical integrity reveals not only theprovenance of a print, but its authenticity. Incidentally,
most of the German photographs were taken with an
Ermanox camera, which I am sure Les knows, is no
Leica with roll film and fast lens. Eisenstaedt acquired a
Leica late in 1932 for his Italian and Swiss travels. So,
what has Les Jones missed ? I really would not venture
to say – other than Wagstaff’s observation that we do
not always connect because our perception may be
obscured. However, Les is on to something - I don’tknow a Fred Smith. I would love to see the Eisenstaedt
comparables.
Maia-Mari Sutnik
Curator, Photography,
Art Gallery of Ontario•The Adams/Eisenstaedt exhibit closed, February 4th
after its long run from November 2006. In 2008,
Transformation AGO, opens with photography in amuch enlarged permanent gallery space. It will feature highlights from some remarkable gifts in its collection, now comprising of nearly 40,000 photographs. Photography will always be on view. ❧VOL 6-10 FEBRUARY 2007

Coming Events

PHSC SPRING FAIR
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Until February 25, 2007. The
Market Gallery, South St. LawrenceMarket, 95 Front St. East, Toronto
presents Building Blocks: Queen
Street West 1847–1800. The exhibit
includes photographs, maps, plansand drawings focussing on ‘tendercalls’ for buildings from Yonge Street
to Roncesvalles. Free admission,
Wednesday to Friday: 10AM to 4PM,
Saturday: 9AM to 4PM, Sunday:
noon to 4PM.

The Annual PHSC Spring Fair opens
at 10:00 AM at the Soccer Centre in
Woodbridge, Ontario, located oneast side of Martingrove Rd. justsouth of #7 Highway. Entry fee is$7.00 at the door. To pre-register fora table reservations call Mark Singer
at 905-762-9031 or Email atmarklsinger@gmail.com. Buy, sell ortrade – there will be over a hundredtables to peruse and choose from.

February 15 to March 17, 2007.
Bulger Gallery at 1026 Queen St.
West, Toronto, Tuesday to Saturday,
11:00AM to 6.00PM will mount an
exhibition by Volker Seding.
Thereafter Laura Letinsky will be featured. Visit www.bulgergallery.com

Information Required
Seeking information on photographer Joe Vakours (or similar) who
signed photo of tepee with snow andhorses in background. An enlarged
sepia print – maybe Alberta local.
Contact: partridge.nest@sympatico.ca –01.06.07

January 27 to September 22, 2007.
City of Toronto Archives, 255
Spadina Road, Toronto, "A Visual
Legacy: The City of Toronto's Useof Photography, 1856 to 1997"shows Toronto in many time periods.

Toronto International
Camera Show
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The next CAMERA SHOW will beheld at the Thornhill Community
Centre, 7755 Bayview Avenue,
Thornhill, ON. on Sunday, March
25th with doors open at 10:00 AM.
Admission fee is $7.00. For tables
contact Sue at suewooten@hotmail.com or Tel/Fax 705-857-2659.

VANCOUVER CAMERA SHOW
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Held at their usual site, the Cameron
Recreation Center, 9523 CameronSt., Burnaby (by Lougheed Mall).
Check their website for information:h t t p : / / w w w. w h i s t l e r i n n s . c o m /c a m e r a s h o w / 01.06.07

Montreal Camera Show
Sunday, April 22, 2007
The 40th Montreal Photographic
Flea Market will be held Sunday,
April 22, 2007 at the Holiday Inn,
6700 Trans Canada Hwy, Pointe
Claire, Quebec (Hwy 40, exit 52
Boul. St-Jean). Everything photographic –new and used. For tablereservation and information checkout sol@therangefinder.com 12.06.06

Information Required
Cyril Gryfe seeks information on studio operations and prices charged byphotographers at turn of the century
and early 1900s. Particularly interested in Frank W. Micklethwaite aswell as his contemporaries: Josiah
Bruce, Eldridge Stanton, Herb
Simpson and J. Fraser Bryce.
Contact a_cgryfe@sympatico.ca
Information Required
Steven Evans at www.se-photo.com
asks if anyone has information on
Toronto photographer R. F. Williams
of the early 1900s. Steve has a new
exhibit of collectible photographs on
his web site. –01.06.07
WantedBicycle & Motorcycle photography,
medals, ephemera, stereoptics, catalogues and all
relateditems.
Contact
Lorne
Shields, at P.O.
Box 87588, 300
John St. Post
Office, Thornhill,
O N . , L3T 7R3.
Telephone at 905886-6911,
ore-mail at lorneshields@rogers.com–10.11.06
For SaleA wide selection of daguerreotypes
and family photo albums for sale.
Contact Les Jones 416-691-1555 orthebookstorecafe@ca.inter.net.–12.11.06
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Information Required
George Dunbar seeks information
on Canada’s “photo booth” inventions. Such machines may haveappeared in 1928 at the Toronto
CNE. An article will appear soon in
Photographic Canadiana on the
topic. ggdunbar@sympatico.ca or(416) 439-3822.–12.11.06
WantedSell your cameras, lenses, old photographs, manuals, etc. on eBay.
Registered eBay Trading Assistantwill help you. Specializing in large
collection, estate and studio liquidations. References available. Soldover 500 cameras on eBay and will
get you top value for your treasures.
Call Tom Dywanski for free evaluation 416-888-5828 or checkwww.planet4sale.ca –10.11.06
WantedEd James of Elkhorn, MB wants to buy
Russian F.E.D. and Zorki 35mm typecameras, NO Zenits! He teaches students to use classic range finder and
TLR cameras. Contact: Ed James,
P.O. Box 69, Elkhorn, Manitoba, R0M
0N0, Telephone: 204-845-2630. –02.09.07
Buying or Consignment
Vintage cameras wanted by experienced Ebay seller. Professionallypresented with pictures and description, ensuring realmarketvalue.
Reserve or nonreserve
auctionstyles. Low commission & listing fees.
Contact Douglas at
905-994-0515 or douglas@dugwerks.com –10.11.06
For SaleBooks on the history of photography
are available from Gary Saretsky’ssite at http://www.saretzky.com/. In
American funds the shipping
charges for the first book going to
U.S. addresses is $5. Email contact
is: saretsky@comcast.net.
Information Required
Ken Metcalf of the Graflex Quarterly
wishes to contact anyone knowledgeable of the Houghton Ensign
Popular Reflex, Popular Pressmanor Houghton-Butcher Pressman.
Contact: METCALF537@aol.com