PhotoHistory XIV
The 14th Triennial Symposium on the History of Photography
October 16-18, 2009 Rochester, New York
Join us to meet historians, collectors, photo experts, and dealers from around the world.
Tour George Eastman House (GEH): his stately 1905 mansion and gardens
and the International Museum of Photography & Film.
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The detailed schedule and registration forms for the XIVth Symposium on the History of Photography
are available online as links from the Society's website at http://www.tphs.org
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This symposium, held every 3 years since 1970, is organized by The Photographic Historical Society,
the oldest such organization in the world, founded in 1966.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, October 16, 2009
Registration & Reception 7:00 PM–10:00 PM at Doubletree Hotel Rochester (Hotel)
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Symposium 8:00 AM–5:30 PM at George Eastman House (Dryden Theatre entrance)
Banquet 7:00 PM at the Hotel
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Photographica Trade Show & Sale 9:00 AM–4:00 PM at the Hotel
SPEAKERS & TOPICS
Terry Bennett (Surrey, England), “Early Photography in China, 1842-1870”
Robert Bogdan (Orwell, Vermont), “Photo Postcards: The People’s Photography, 1905-1935”
Jerome “Pepper” Broad (Pequea, Pennsylvania), “Tradesmen, Craftsmen and Laborers in Occupational
Tintypes”
Andrew Davidhazy (Honeoye Falls, New York), “The Vanishing High-Speed Motion Picture Cameras: A
Lecture/Demonstration”
Rolf Fricke (Rochester, New York), “Eaton Lothrop Remembered” (at banquet)
Todd Gustavson (GEH Technology Curator, Rochester, New York), CAMERA: A History of Photography from
the Daguerreotype to Digital (GEH publication)
Matthew Isenburg (Hadlyme, Connecticut), “The Many Faces of Daguerre— in Advertisements, Engravings,
Paintings, and Daguerreotypes”
Steven Joseph (Brussels, Belgium), “Early Advertising Photography: a Well-Kept Secret”
William Kraus (Newtown, Pennsylvania) and Takayuki Kawai (Saline, Michigan), “Nikon Cameras: the
Early Years”
George Layne (Flourtown, Pennsylvania), “The Earliest Kodak Cameras with String-set Shutters”
Nancy Martin (Rochester, New York), “The Kodak Historical Collection at the University of
Rochester—a Resource for Photographic Historians” (15 minutes)
Les Newcomer (Farmington, Michigan), “How Folmer & Schwing’s Cameras Changed Photography”
Barret Oliver (Glendora, California), “The Woodburytype: Its History, Technology, and Influence”
Linda Ries (New Cumberland, Pennsylvania), “J. Horace McFarland and the Autochrome”
Steven Sasson (Hilton, New York), “The Dawn of Digital” (banquet speech by coinventor of digital camera)
Robert Shanebrook (Rochester, New York), “The 35 mm Film Story: Factors that Created ‘135’—the Most
Popular Film Format”
Lorne Shields (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada), “History of the Bicycle Through the Lens of the Camera”
Rachel Stuhlman (GEH Librarian, Rochester, New York), Imagining Paradise: The Richard & Ronay
Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester (GEH publication)
Sarah J. Weatherwax (Curator of Prints and Photographs, The Library Company of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), “Catching a Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860”
PHOTOGRAPHICA TRADE SHOW & SALE THEME: photographic equipment, images, books, ephemera, memorabilia,
& more
DATE: 9:00 AM–4:00 PM, Sunday, October 18
LOCATION: Doubletree Hotel Rochester
ADMISSION: included in the registration; $5 for the general public (free after 2:00 PM)
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The detailed schedule and registration forms for the XIVth Symposium on the History of Photography
are available online as links from the Society's website at http://www.tphs.org
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Your assistance in spreading word about this Symposium would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Andrew Davidhazy, Professor
Imaging and Photographic Technology
School of Photo Arts and Sciences/RIT
70 Lomb memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
em: andpph@xxxxxxx
web: people.rit.edu/andpph
