Reflecting Time – Exhibition featuring images taken with vintage cameras.

Call for Submissions

Submit a photo you’ve taken with a vintage camera!  Go for a walk with your vintage camera and bring us your favourite print. Be creative and show what these old cameras can still do. The prints will be part of the exhibition ‘Reflecting Time’ that opens April 24th.

Details:
• Photos should be taken with a vintage camera like a Kodak box camera, folding camera or other pre-SLR or 35mm rangefinder type of camera. If you don’t have one of your own, come by the shop and see what we have in the used camera department!
• Prints 16×20 or smaller will be accepted. Ask us if you are having trouble making a print of your image an we will try to give you some suggestions. 
• A small print of your camera is also required. We will hang them next to the print.
• All submissions are due by April 19th. Drop your images off at Beau.

Taking photographs with vintage cameras can be both unpredictable and magical. Whether using box cameras, folders, or other historic treasures, all can connect you to a time when everyday people first picked up a camera to record their lives. Before George Eastman created the Kodak camera in 1888, photography was a complicated process mainly left to professionals. When the Kodak  came out, people could easily take photographs of everything around them, and send in the film for processing and printing. The cost of $25 for the camera, and $10 for processing and reloading was still more than many people could afford though. When the first Brownie camera was introduced in 1900 for $1, photography really became available to all. This was the start of an era of visually recording everything. Other manufacturers brought out different cameras and films, camera clubs gathered, and everyone wanted a photograph of something. Today we still use many of these cameras. They are easy to use, and can transport you to a time when photography was a new activity for people. For a great history of the Brownie camera, including how a Canadian author and illustrator was the source of the Brownie name, and who the original Brownies of British and Scottish folklore were, read this paper “George Eastman’s Modern Stone-Age Family: Snapshot Photography and the Brownie’ by Mark Oliver (you may have to log in through a library or educational institution or create your own free account). It’s quite fascinating!

Join us for the opening of Reflecting Time on April 24th from 4:30 – 6:30 at Beau Photo.

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