The January 2021 Snap Shots newsletter features this month’s Zoom meeting speaker, Robert Currier, an award-winning photographer of fires and the firemen fighting them on the “fire ground.” Also in this issue: a conversation about the Midland Action Camera; the minimalist Werra 35mm camera; and a revival of Polaroid Type 100 instant film. Intriguing, and pricey.
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A prototype Leica “0” camera (#105) that belonged to Oscar Barnack, inventor of the Leica series, crushed previous auction records as well as the pre-auction estimates. The camera, auctioned at the Leitz Photographica Auction on June 13, 2022, sold for
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 the first illustration to appear in a newspaper, similar to
Combination cameras were manufactured in Boston by the Blair Tourograph & Dry Plate Company from 1882 to 1894 and “are traditional field designs offered with a unique [patented] accessory plate-holder extension mounted at the rear” (https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/226546-blaircombination-camera-1882). In an 1882 pamphlet,
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
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