Snap Shots February 2021

Orhan Pamuk, from Orange © Orhan Pamuk/Courtesy STEIDL
Orhan Pamuk, from Orange © Orhan Pamuk/Courtesy STEIDL

The February 2021 Snap Shots newsletter is packed with photo history. This month’s Zoom meeting hosts Seattle-based curator Nicolette Bromberg’s presentation on “East Becoming West,” the story behind the Seattle Camera Club, founded in the 1920s by Japanese-American citizens, who were very successful Pictorialist photographers, and were later prohibited from taking photographs after being sent to internment camps at the start of World War II. Other items: a short, colorful history of the View-Master; a special dictionary, which is also a camera; a celebration of authors who photograph, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk (above, from his book Orange); and a very special camera spotted at a very special event.


 

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To the Dealers, Attendees, PHSNE Staff, Volunteers and the NNHS: 

THANK YOU!

You made PHOTOGRAPHICA 90 the best EVER!

Our 50th Anniversary Year Celebration Will Continue Throughout 2023

PHSNE May Meeting: Bernie Zelitch “Discovers” Lowell Photographer Annie Powell

Sunday, May 7, 2023 7:30PM on Zoom


June Meeting: PEM Curator Stephanie Tung

Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:30PM on Zoom

Give Us Your Feedback on Photographica 90

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Support PHSNE on eBay 

Visit seller Mass495 for deals from PHSNE