Boston Camera Club

Le Boston Camera Club est la principale organisation photographique amateur de Boston, Massachusetts et des environs. Fondé en 1881, il propose plusieurs activités aux photographes amateurs, notamment la photographie numérique. Il se réunit chaque semaine de septembre à juin et est ouvert au public.

Boston Camera Club

Cadre
But	Photographie

Fondation
Fondation	1881

Identité
Siège	Boston
Site web	https://www.bostoncameraclub.org/

Histoire

Boston Society of Amateur Photographers (1881)

Le club connu aujourd'hui sous le nom de Boston Camera Club est fondé le 7 octobre 1881 à Boston sous le nom de Boston Society of Amateur Photographers. Il est le plus ancien club de photographie existant en continu et fondé principalement par des amateurs, et le deuxième plus ancien club existant aux États-Unis[1].

Initialement, le club se réunissait dans les bureaux du Sunday Budget à Boston. Plus tard, il s'est réuni à ce qu'on appelle maintenant le Massachusetts Institute of Technology, situé à l'époque à Boston[2].

"Boston Types — Miss H" de Walter G. Chase, Boston Camera Club, vers 1896. Exposé au Salon de Washington et Exposition photographique d'art de 1896, Washington DC.

Galerie d'images

Chambre noire, rue Bromfield, avant 1893
Chambre noire, rue Bromfield, 1893
Fabrication de plaques de lanterne, 1893
Studio, rue Bromfield, 1893

Remarques

The oldest continuously extant camera club in the U.S. is the Photographic Soc. of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 and 19 years older than BCC. Believed founded mostly by professionals, it then became largely amateur. The 1st amateur photographic organization in the U.S. was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, NYC, extant 1861–1863, and revived twice in the later 20th c. "In 1880 there were fewer than 10 camera clubs or societies in the U.S., all of them composed mainly...of commercial photographers..." (Greenough, 268).
The earliest known mention of BCC in print is an announcement by secretary Thurston of formation of the Boston Soc. of Amateur Photographers in Photographic Times & Amer. Photographer, v11, n132, new ser. n12, Dec. 1881, 457–458.

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Notices d'autorité :
Ressource relative aux beaux-arts :
- (en) Photographers' Identities Catalog

Portail de la photographie
Portail de Boston

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[1] The oldest continuously extant camera club in the U.S. is the Photographic Soc. of Philadelphia, founded in 1862 and 19 years older than BCC. Believed founded mostly by professionals, it then became largely amateur. The 1st amateur photographic organization in the U.S. was the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, NYC, extant 1861–1863, and revived twice in the later 20th c. "In 1880 there were fewer than 10 camera clubs or societies in the U.S., all of them composed mainly...of commercial photographers..." (Greenough, 268).

[2] The earliest known mention of BCC in print is an announcement by secretary Thurston of formation of the Boston Soc. of Amateur Photographers in Photographic Times & Amer. Photographer, v11, n132, new ser. n12, Dec. 1881, 457–458.