Meetings

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 begins Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 7:30PM EDT. PHSNE meetings are open to the public—Sign Up Now to receive PHSNE

This month’s Zoom meeting welcomes Josh Farr, Executive Director and Curator of the Vermont Center for Photography (VCP) in Brattleboro, Vermont. He will take us on a virtual tour of VCP this Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 7:30PM EST. The non-profit VCP has been operating since 1998, and moved into

The November 2022 snap shots Camera of the Month article featured the WW II-era Tenax II camera, prompting a letter from Wes Loder, author of The Tenax II: Zeiss Ikon’s Precision, Fast-action Camera: A Pictorial Compendium and Gallery of Work (Hemlock Lodge Press, 2017). His letter, printed in the January

PHSNE Turns Fifty Welcome to January 2023! This month’s Zoom meeting (Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 7:30PM EST) will be a discussion of PHSNE’s past, present, and future. Long-time members can reminisce about the earlier days of the group; newer members can learn how the organization grew into the society

It’s the Season To Give and PHSNE Is Doing Its Share! The good news is that many schools are participating in a revival of analog photography and teaching basic darkroom skills as part of their photography programs. Outreach coordinator Holly Worthington reports that many of these schools are in great

In 2014, the Brookline Historical Society (BHS) was given a tiny photo album — 3″ wide by 3.75″ high — with postage stamp-sized photos of 48 Brookline and Boston children, most of them girls. Written inside the front cover was a name, Mamie Williams, and a date, March 16, 1882.

Every photographer wants an audience to connect with their images, and great storytelling can add emotional depth to those images. But understanding how to weave a narrative into your photography can be a challenge. How can one photo tell a whole story, with a beginning, middle, and end? JP Stones

PHSNE’s first meeting of the 2022-23 season features Dr. Lee McIntyre speaking about early women photographers in New England on Sunday, September 11 at 7:30 PM EDT via Zoom. Sign up on the PHSNE website to receive meeting information. For the last 4 years, Dr. McIntyre’s focus has been to

The June 2022 ZOOM meeting features Vladimir Khazan, PHSNE member and photo historian. His presentation will cover the Dresden camera maker IHAGEE and its pioneering Exakta cameras Sunday, June 5, 2022, beginning at 7:30PM EDT. Johan Steenbergen, a Dutchman, founded Industrie-und-Handelsgesellschaft in Dresden in 1912. The name was shortened to

Philip Pressel was the project engineer in charge of the design of the formerly top-secret Hexagon KH-9 spy satellite’s stereo cameras. His live Zoom presentation on Sunday,  May 1, 2022 will expand on and answer questions about his recent 2021 PHSNE Journal article. The Hexagon KH-9 was the last film-based

What is Photographica and why would I want to go?   Here’s the What: Photographica is a one-day show celebrating every aspect of analog (film) photography: cameras, daguerreotypes, lenses, cdv & cabinet prints, darkroom equipment, photo postcards, books & magazines, snapshots, accessories, ephemera … you name it. It happens in