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Snap Shots September 2023

Brian Taylor’s Photographic Journey on Zoom. Two powerful exhibits explore 180 years of photography in the lives of African Americans and much more..

“I Am Seen …Therefore I Am” and “As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic” in Hartford & Salem

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…

Two Models from the Agfa Karat Series: The 6.3 Art Deco and Agfa Karat 36

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…

September 2023: Brian Taylor Shares His Photographic Journey

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 leads…

The Journal – 2022

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 Journal – 2021

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…

SNAP SHOTS JUNE 2023

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…

What’s Happening With Film?

“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….

Charles Chevalier (1804—1859) and the Photographe Daguerreotype Camera

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,…

June 2023: PEM’s “Power & Perspective: Early Photography in China” with Curator Stephanie Tung

In this recording, Stephaniie Tung, Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, speaks about the exhibition Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China.

May 2023: How Bernie Zelitch Discovered Lowell’s Annie Powell

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…

Scope Out the Escopette by Albert Darier

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 & The Last-Minute Details

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…

SNAP SHOTS MAY 2023

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…

2023 Photographica 90’s PHSNE Auction Listings

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…

Get Ready: Photographica 90 & the Ultimate FAQs Are Here

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…

Snap Shots April 2023

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…

The First Photograph Published in a Newspaper —1848

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…

April 2023: MIT’s Gary Van Zante on Theodore Lilienthal and His New Orleans Portfolio at the 1867 Paris World’s Fair

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…

Linhof Technika 70 & Press 70

The Linhof Technika 70 “is an exceptional, beautifully-made, and very expensive combination of the rollfilm camera and the technical camera.” (Collecting and Using Classic Cameras, Ivor Matanle, 1986, p.10) “Designed…

Snap Shots March 2023

The March 2023 issue of snap shots includes: Zoom presentation on Vermont Center for Photography by Executive Director Josh Farr March 5 at 7:30PM PHSNE members’ field trip to Peabody-Essex…

Re-Discovering the Lumière Brothers’ Autochrome Color Plates Factory in … Burlington, Vermont?

A note on this story: Chris Farnsworth, from the Burlington weekly Seven Days, together with the key figure who re-discovered the Lumière Brothers factory in Burlington, Hugo Martínez Cazón, published this…

The Olympus Pen F: Then and Now

Introduced in 1963, the Olympus Pen F* was a small, beautifully designed camera that achieved rapid market success. “The concept of a camera that could be carried and used as…

March 2023: Director Josh Farr Presents the Vermont Center for Photography

Tune in to the recording from our March 2023 meeting to meet the Executive Director and Curator, Josh Farr, of the Vermont Center for Photography (VCP)! Take a virtual tour of this Brattleboro non-profit which has been offering monthly exhibitions and workshops since 1998, plus so much more!