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The following is a description of recent speakers as featured in Snapshots.

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Join us for a short meeting at 102 Fernwood Road, Brookline.  Then a tour of Jack #2 collection.  This consists of 23,000 pieces of historical and contemporary photographic items on display in 4000 sq feet of museum space.
 

This year's foreign field trip was to China with stops in Shanghai, Guilin, Xi'an, & Beijing.
 
 

As the inventor of instant photography, Edwin Land is more than a historical figure.  He founded another entire industry beside instant photography, plastic sheet polarizers.  He was one of the most important poineers and prophets of science-based industry.  He was a genius whose technical and marketing success stretched over 50 years.

Jan 10, 1999
George Gilbert on "Dunkelchrome"

George Gilbert is founding President of the American Photographic Historical Society and author of 15 books on photography.

Presented by Alan Kattelle, PHSNE member, and one of the masters in the field of the motion picture industry.  He is current completing a book on the subject and is an advisor to the Northeast Historic Film archive in Bucksport ME.
Volume 3 Number 6 June 1998

 

Volume 3 Number 4 April 1998

David W. Lewis of Collander, Ontario, is recognized internationally as one of the last surviving masters of the pigment-control processes of bromoil and transfer. He is also an expert in several obscure non-silver processes and is considered to be the leading authority on the history and practice of the oil, bromoil, and transfer processes.

A bromoil print is simply a black and white photograph that has its silver chemically removed from the paper and replaced by a stiff oil pigment. Special stag-foot shape brushes are used to stipple the pigment onto the gelatin surface. The result has the appearance of an etching. The bromoil process has more control than any other pigment process and may be considered absolutely permanent.

Volume 3 Number 3 March 1998

PHSNE member Marti Jones of Manchester, NH will be the guest speaker March 1 at when PHSNE meets at its new location in the Waltham High School.

Marti's interest in collecting cameras was triggered when she took a photography course in her senior year at college. Her instructor brought in an example of a daguerreotype to show the class. From that point on, Marti began buying every camera she could afford and now, 19 years later, she has "focused" on collecting colored-model cameras, subminiature, toy/novelty and unusual disposable cameras.

Please plan to join us on Sunday, March 1, 1998, 1:30PM at the Waltham High School for a truly fun-filled and educational afternoon.
 
 

Vol 3 Number 1

Dr. Janet Moyer "Going to the Dog". A brief slide show and talk about how dogs are portrayed in photography -showing them in their work roles or simply as human companions. Since the advent of photography in the 19th century, dogs have been photographed along with their families or simply for themselves.

Col Cliff Goodie (Ret.) "Strategic Air Command: A Portrait". Col. Goodie flew in B29, RB-047 and B-52 bombers of the SAC. His book: Strategic Air Command: A Portrait was published by Simon and Schuster in 1965. It is a vivid portrayal of dramatic aerial operations and of the men who flew SAC's jet bombers and the missile crews who together forestalled Communist threats and brought an end to the Cold War.

Henry Karsh "Spartus Cameras". Spartus cameras were low-cost and produced immediately following World War II. Slides of the different Spartus models and their many variations will be shown. Examples of each major type will be on display. He will discuss their origin and development, as well as the convoluted background of the companies which produced them.
 
 

Volume 2 Number 9 December 1997

The lantern projector show has had a long history as public and private entertainer. By the end of the Victorian era, it began to experience competition from the newly arrived movies - to which it had contributed many special effects.

Introduced in the 17th century as an optical curiosity, and into the hands of traveling showmen by the 18th, the later flourished especially during the Victorian period. A great variety of lanterns, slides, (initially hand-painted), books and even magazines on the subject were available to the public.

David Brooke has been collecting and showing lantern slides for almost twenty years, and is a member of both the British and American magic lantern societies.

Please join us at the Holiday Inn in Newton on December 7 at 1:30 pm for David Brooke and this remarkable Victorian Stereopticon.
 
 

Volume 2 Number 8 November, 1997

A national magazine recently published a featured story on Jack Naylor (in which they addressed him as "The Guru of Collectors".

A collector of photographic history since the mid 1950's, he is the author of hundreds of articles and the giver of who knows how many lectures, both in the United States, and the world on the subject of photographic collecting. Jack will speak to PHSNE members and their guests on Sunday, November 2 on the subject of international intrigue as it relates to photographic espionage.

Jack Naylor's first collection of 31,000 cameras and images, now in a new museum in Yokohama, Japan, contained an enormous display of spy equipment and photographs. He know every item, whether it was from the American detective camera period of the 1880's or the Cold War of a century later. Jack know of the daring and colorful stories behind many of them. He can tell stories about his acquisitions on a park bench in Paris; a fourth floor walk-up in Moscow; an ally in Beijing; a coffee house on 3rd Avenue, NY with a UN "technical advisor"; in a collector's tiny airless back room in Tokyo; in the front seat of a car in Calais, Maine; inside a gigantic closed steel vault in Bangkok; on a bridge over the Dneiper River in Kiev and in a really sleazy dive in Rio. He leads an exciting, adventurous life as an international collector.

Now his museum is full again. It is filled with some 13,000 photographic items in the inventory, with cameras and images of a rarity and importance even exceeding that of his first collection. And, naturally, there is another display of espionage related material which is truly outstanding.

PHSNE members and guests will se exquisite slides of clandestine material from the Soviet KGB, the East German Stasi; the work of American Project CORONA, which is the super secret spy network, recently declassified; and spying from submarines and with undersea robots.

Jack will bring with him, for our viewing interest, the rarest of American detective cameras known in the trade simply as "French, Latin and Shadows", and other wonderful, exciting pieces , some of which you probably have never seen before.

A highly decorated US air force pilot during WWII, Jack is a retired economist and engineer, and was president of a large international company with manufacturing plants in 13 countries. Jack and his wife, Enid Starr (an attorney), have 7 children and 14 grandchildren. Right now, as we go to press they are travelling through Prague, Budapest and Vienna. We know he will bring back something in the photographic field that is rare and wonderful! He always does! (Pat MacMillan)

Plan to join us Sunday, November 2 at 1:30PM at the Holiday Inn, Newton for a real detective story.
 
 

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