The May 2022 Snap Shots features author Philip Pressel’s May 1st Zoom meeting presentation on the formerly top-secret Hexagon KH-9 spy satellite’s stereo cameras. Also — more cameras: the Kodak 3A Folding Pocket for postcards, and a 130-year-old wood bellows camera serving as a coffee table. Exhibits: Wellesley’s Davis Museum has three photography exhibits ending June 5th; the Griffin Museum features work by four photographers also ending June 5th. The non-profit New England Camera Club Council (NECCC) 75th conference is

After three years of COVID lockdowns and social distancing, PHSNE’s 89th Photographica Show is back and better than ever. Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St. in Newtonville, MA. 7:00 AM Early Birds $20; 9:00 AM General Admission $5; 4 PM dealer tables close; PHSNE Auction begins.at 4:30 PM until the lots are sold. Don’t miss this one! Also in this issue: the rare Mercury CC-1500 35mm camera (1939-1942); Aperture’s new

The March 2022 Snap Shots features Eric Luden, CEO of Digital Silver Imaging, who will present “Tips on Digitizing Your Archive” Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:30PM on Zoom. Among his tips are scanning do’s and don’ts for a successful archiving project along with a Q&A. Other items in this issue include: Photographica 89 will take place all day Saturday, April 23, 2022 at Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St., Newton, MA, with more details to come;  new research from

The February 2022 Snap Shots features Terri Cappucci’s Zoom presentation on how she rescued thousands of glass negatives from the trash, and the steps she took to restore and preserve them, along with hard-won advice on how to keep images safe. Other stories include: a Photographica romance started in 1996; new research from documents and images in the National Archives dating back to the Civil War; the Minolta Maxxum 7000 auto-everything 35mm camera launched in 1985; and three exhibits: Light

Happy New Year! The January 2022 Snap Shots features a Zoom presentation by Lev Sakin, noted optical designer and engineer, for the January 9, 2022, meeting. Sakin’s career includes working at LOMO in St. Petersburg, Russia; General Scientific in Ann Arbor, MI; and in Wilton, CT, where he co-founded Optical Design Associates. If you’re curious about lenses, this is a special opportunity to learn from an expert. Other Snap Shots items: a detailed follow-up article by PHSNE member Mark Kronquist

The December 2021 Snap Shots is our Happy Holidays edition. It starts with a special Zoom meeting on December 5 featuring the members’ “Show ‘n’ Tell,” sharing their favorite cameras, images, or what-have-you with the audience online. It’s engaging, fun, and occasionally hilarious. Don’t miss it! Other items in this issue include: a PHSNE leadership transition; the passing of LIfe Member David DeJean; the Associated Press 175th anniversary “A History in Photographs” with images such as Nelson Mandela freed from prison,1990

The November 2021 Snap Shots features Dr. Anthony Hamber’s presentation on “The Rise of Photographic Illustration 1839-1880” from England,   November 7, via Zoom. Other articles: a new collection of African-American photographer’s work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; the Kodak Scout cameras; the Minolta Weathermatic A; “Left Behind: Afghan Studio Portraits,” a result of the chaotic departure from Afghanistan, with uncollected or duplicate photographs (above) found in drawers or boxes; Photographica 89 Returns—Saturday, April 23, 2022.  

The October 2021 Snap Shots features PHSNE member Vladimir Khazan’s Zoom presentation on “Zeiss-Ikon: History and Products from 1846-1945” at the October 3rd meeting. Other articles: the National Park Foundation grand prize-winning photo, taken by Mark Gruenhaupt, captures the Milky Way Galaxy above a camping area in the San Juan National Forest in the southwestern corner of Colorado, taken in July 2020 (above); thousands of glass plate negatives saved from destruction by photographer Terri Cappucci in Western Massachusetts (Update: Cappucci

The September 2021 Snap Shots features collectors and co-authors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell’s Zoom meeting presentation on their book “Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love” Sunday, September 12. Published in 2020, the book is based on their collection of 3200 vintage photos from 1850 to 1950 showing romantic, loving male couples. Also in this issue: “Hidden Mothers” in 19th-century infant and child photographs; a new book by PHSNE member Paul Rheingold, “The Early Photographers of Lake Sunapee,” offers

The June 2021 Snap Shots features a Zoom meeting presentation by curator and archivist Edith Cuerrier on “The Gabriel Cromer Collection at the George Eastman Museum,” Sunday, June 6. Cuerrier will discuss the French collector Gabriel Cromer, the scope of the collection and its path to the George Eastman Museum, and her own work cataloging the materials (N.B. excellent French language skills required!). Other items: a remembrance of long-time PHSNE member Ed Shaw, the creator of Photographica; an article on daguerreotypist

The May 2021 Snap Shots features Nicole Hudgins, author of “The Gender of Photography,” who will give a Zoom meeting presentation on her book Sunday, May 2, 2021. The talk explores why and how 19th-century photographic institutions insisted on masculine values and authority, and how women engaged with photography despite that dominant trend. Other items include: Dora Goodman’s 3D-printed medium-format camera (above) as an open-source project; a donation by New York’s Howard Greenburg Gallery to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts of