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Home Movies: A History of the American Industry 1897-1979, by Alan Kettelle This year marks the 100th anniversary (July 5, 1923) of 16mm movies. The most significant features of the CineKodak 16mm system were safety film and B&W reversal film.
This month’s featured auction at phsneusa on eBay is a serious piece of photo history: an 8×10 Deardorff view camera with a Symmar-S 5.6/300mm lens
Sunday, December 3, 2023, 7:30 P.M. via Zoom: Brief annual meeting and election before the presentation. Link to be sent to members after the Thanksgiving weekend. In 2023 PHSNE reached…
The Reflex Korelle was an early 6×6 SLR with interchangeable lenses. It was widely-copied and spawned the Praktisix, Pentacon Six, and the Pentax 6×7.
Japanese fashion tastes and vernacular photography during the 20th century seen together offer a rare view into Japanese culture, patterns and silhouettes that combine both traditional and Western-influenced clothing
Camera innovations, from photography’s earliest beginnings to the present day, are an intriguing journey of twists and turns. Many efforts to improve the picture-taking experience through new designs, features and…
“Developing Boston: Berenice Abbott & Irene Shwachman Photograph a Changing City“ features the first joint presentation of work by two pioneering photographers of the 1930s and 1960s, capturing a Boston…
PHSNE member Vladimir Khazan’s Zoom meetup presentation on the “Sport,” an very early Russian 35mm SLR and much more.
PHSNE member Vladimir Khazan will offer a program on the Gelveta and Sport cameras on Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 7:30PM EDT via Zoom. Sign up now to receive the…
Most commonly known as the Stirn Vest Pocket Camera, it can occasionally appear as Gray’s Vest Camera or under other names. Describing it as “a rigid, disc-like camera, to be…
An Impressive Stereo Viewer With An Interesting Provenance The device pictured above was acquired from the Jack Naylor collection. After he passed, much of his collection was turned over to an…
Brian Taylor’s Photographic Journey on Zoom. Two powerful exhibits explore 180 years of photography in the lives of African Americans and much more..
Two powerful local exhibitions on view this fall bring the Black Experience face-to-face with audiences up close, seeing how 180+ years of photographic images offer a painfully slow recognition of…
In 1936, Agfa introduced the Agfa Karat 6.3, first in a long series of models. Reflecting the times, it was of an Art Deco design. It had a collapsible front…
PHSNE is pleased to present a lecture by Brian Taylor, a renowned contemporary photographer, professor, and gallery director. Known for his lively lectures on historic and contemporary photography, Brian will…
The 2022 New England Journal of Photographic History, #180, begins over 100 years before the McDonald’s empire of franchises spread across the world. A New England father and son built…
The 2021 New England Journal of Photographic History, #179, contains two fascinating articles. The first details the development of an engineering marvel, the camera used in the once highly classified…
The June 2023 edition of snap shots includes: Stephanie Tung, Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, spoke at PHSNE’s June ZOOM meeting on June 4, 2023, about…
“It is the worst of times; it is the best of times,” said the hapless photographer searching for the right color film he could use to shoot at Photographica 90….
In or about 1840, designer/manufacturer Charles Chevalier of Paris produced Le Photographe, a similar but smaller, collapsible camera modeled after the Daguerre camera. Daguerre’s was soon tagged “whole plate” and Chevalier’s,…
Stephanie Tung, Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, will speak about the recent exhibition Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China. Co-curated with Karina Corrigan, the…
How does somebody with no particular background in the field discover an unknown but prolific and artistic photographer? In late 2020, neoclassical songwriter Bernie Zelitch, retired from journalism and software…
The year 1888 saw the introduction of the original Kodak camera. In the same year, Albert Darier was granted the first Swiss patent for photography, number 17, for a light-weight,…
Photographica 90 is just 48 hours away. This is the 50th Anniversary Year for PHSNE and for the Photographica Show and Sale. Both began in 1973 … and here we…
May 2023 snap shots features: Bernie Zelitch “Discovers” Photographer Annie Powell. His presentation will be live on Sunday, May 7th, 7:30 PM via Zoom. Today, we know the photographer was Annie…
PHSNE’s Camera of the Month section features a lot more than just one camera this month. In fact, there are over 90 cameras, lenses and photography accessories listed in the…
Celebrating PHSNE’s 50th Anniversary & Photographica 90 What is Photographica and why would I want to go? Here’s the What: Photographica is a one-day buy-and-sell event that includes every aspect…
April 2023 snap shots features: PHSNE monthly meeting on Zoom with MIT Museum curator Gary Van Zante’s presentation on “An American City on Exhibition: Theodore Lilienthal’s Photographs of New Orleans…
It would be difficult for modern readers to accept the text-only version of a newspaper. One online source containing “a brief history of the birth of photojournalism,” states that…
PHSNE welcomes MIT Museum Curator Gary Van Zante and his presentation on Theodore Lilienthal’s portfolio of New Orleans views exhibited at the 1867 Paris World’s Fair. The meeting via Zoom…