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Photographica / 2008-05
Photographica 69
Anouncement
May 3-4 event includes program on Harold Edgerton and his stroboscopic photography
Photographica 69 will take the place of PHSNE's May meeting. The photographic show and sale takes place May 3-4 at the Americal Civic Center, 467 Main St. in Wakefield, MA. The event will be open to the public from 9 to 6 on Saturday, May 3, and 10 to 4 on Sunday, May 4. (For directions see the Web site, www.phsne.org.) In addition to 100 tables offering cameras and equipment of every conceivable type, format, and vintage, the event will include Discovery Tables hosted by PHSNE members to introduce their special interests, and, at 11 a.m. Saturday, a keynote program and demonstration of the work of Dr. Harold Edgerton, the brilliant inventor who perfected the stroboscopic flash, and was a beloved teacher of generations of MIT students. Show manager John Dockery is still soliciting the help of PHSNE members on Friday night beginning at 7 p.m. to set up the hall and prepare dealer badges and information packets of dealer information. (He's sweetening the deal with a thank-you ice cream social afterwards at the Jordan's Furniture IMAX movie complex). He also needs help early
Saturday morning to check dealers in, and throughout the show hours to take tickets, count money and guard doors, as well as help visitors and dealers alike. You can contact John at 781-592-2553 or by e-mail at address on PHSNE contact page.
Dr. James Bales, assistant director of the MIT Edgerton Center, will introduce the inventor and professor who won an Oscar (for a short feature, "Quicker Than A Wink!", made at MGM in 1940), a Medal of Freedom (awarded by the War Department for his work during World War II), and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Bales will present many of Edgerton's historic images that froze time to reveal the physics – and the beauty – of hummingbirds' wings, flowing water, and athletes in motion. He'll also chronicle the current state of the art in high-speed imaging, which these days, he says, means things like high-speed video, and Schlieren photography, a technique that shows the variations in temperature or density of clear mediums like water or air. Dr. Bales, like Edgerton, earned his Ph.D. at MIT, and today teaches the Strobe Project Laboratory class that Edgerton taught for years. Bales became the assistant director of the Edgerton Center in 1998 after working for several years with the MIT Sea Grant Underwater Vehicles Laboratory.
—Announcement text and Edgerton photo from snap shots, May 2008.
Video of Show
The following video excerpt of Photographic 69 was provided by George Champine. In addition to an overview of the event, it shows the Discovery Tables and the double piddler stroboscopic demonstration used during the talk about Edgerton's photography by James Bales.
If you have a problem playing this videos using the YouTube viewer, help is available at Using This Site. Discovery Video
A recent feature introduced at Photographic is the Discovery Table. Members or other groups can use a table at the show to display and demonstrate their interests. Former PHSNE President John Wojtowicz hosted a Discovery Table to display the classic medium format folding cameras from the 1930s that he uses to make new "old" tintypes, cyanotypes and salt prints. These cameras include the Kodak Recomar 18 and 33 and a Zeiss Volta. You can see John discussing these cameras and their use in this video:
You can also see John discussing cyanotype and salt prints in the Show & Tell Part 2 Video from the April 2008 PHSNE Meeting. If you have a problem playing this videos using the YouTube viewer, help is available at Using This Site.
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