Tomorrow is 127 Day!

Tomorrow, Monday, January 27, 2020, is 127 Day! 

127 Film Photography will feature 127-format photographs made on January 27, 2020, in a special online exhibition. You're invited to participate!

No fees, no competition, just a friendly virtual community joining together to make 127-format photos on January 27, 2020.

To show your work,

1. Take 127-format photographs on  January 27, 2020.
2. Send one of your 127-format photographs from January 27 to 127 Film Photography. Please email one jpg file, 500 pixels wide, to 127filmformat ~at~ gmail.com, by February 27, 2020. (Hopefully a month will be enough time for everyone to get their film developed and scanned).
3. In the subject line of your email, type "January 2020 127 Day."
4. In the body of the email, please include the copyright symbol, your name, the title of the photograph, location, camera and film types, and your website address (or other link to your work). In that order. Please follow this example EXACTLY (you don't have to use initials if you prefer to be known by your full name!):  

©J. M. Golding, untitled; northern California, USA; Kodak Brownie Fiesta, Macophot UP100 (expired 7/00), http://www.jmgolding.com

All types of 127 film format* are welcome, whether the film began its existence as 127, or you used 35 mm film in a 127 camera, or you respooled 46mm film, or you cut down 120 film to 127 size ... or maybe you have a technique that I don't know about yet - if so, please tell me so I can share it with others who love this format (with full credit to you, of course - or perhaps you'd like to write a short article for 127 Film Photography about it!). Photos made on 127 film in a different size camera are welcome too.

127 Film Photography will publish all photos received (as long as they are in 127 format and do not contain images of nudity, violence, or exploitation).

I look forward to seeing your 127 Day photos! 

 

Good light and happy photographing!

*Sorry, digital photos in an aspect ratio similar to 127 film (or any other digital photos) do NOT qualify. 

One week till 127 Day!

The next 127 Day is just one week away - on Monday, January 27 (1/27), 2020. It's time to take your film out of the fridge and load your camera.
127 Film Photography will feature 127-format photographs made on January 27, 2020, in a special online exhibition. You're invited to participate!

No fees, no competition, just a friendly virtual community joining together to make 127-format photos on January 27, 2020.
 
To show your work,

1. Take 127-format photographs on  January 27, 2020.
2. Send one of your 127-format photographs from January 27 to 127 Film Photography. Please email one jpg file, 500 pixels wide, to 127filmformat ~at~ gmail.com, by February 27, 2020. (Hopefully a month will be enough time for everyone to get their film developed and scanned).
3. In the subject line of your email, type "January 2020 127 Day."
4. In the body of the email, please include the copyright symbol, your name, the title of the photograph, location, camera and film types, and your website address (or other link to your work). In that order. Please follow this example EXACTLY (you don't have to use initials if you prefer to be known by your full name!):  

©J. M. Golding, untitled; northern California, USA; Kodak Brownie Fiesta, Kodak Verichrome Pan (expired 3/63), http://www.jmgolding.com

All types of 127 film format* are welcome, whether the film began its existence as 127, or you used 35 mm film in a 127 camera, or you respooled 46mm film, or you cut down 120 film to 127 size ... or maybe you have a technique that I don't know about yet - if so, please tell me so I can share it with others who love this format (with full credit to you, of course - or perhaps you'd like to write a short article for 127 Film Photography about it!). Photos made on 127 film in a different size camera are welcome too.

127 Film Photography will publish all photos received (as long as they are in 127 format and do not contain images of nudity, violence, or exploitation).

I look forward to seeing your 127 Day photos! 
 

Good light and happy photographing!

*Sorry, digital photos in an aspect ratio similar to 127 film (or any other digital photos) do NOT qualify. 

Tomorrow is 127 Day!

Tomorrow, Friday, the 12th of July (1217), is 127 Day!

127 Film Photography will feature 127-format photographs made on July 12, 2019, in a special exhibition. You're invited to participate!

No fees, no competition, just a friendly virtual community joining together to make 127-format photos on July 12, 2019.

To show your work,

1. Take 127-format photographs on July 12, 2019.
2. Send one of your photographs from July 12 to 127 Film Photography. Please email one jpg file, 500 pixels wide, to 127filmformat ~at~ gmail.com by August 12, 2019.
3. In the subject line of your email, type "July 2019 127 Day."
4. In the body of the email, please include the copyright symbol, your name, the title of the photograph, location, camera and film types, and your website address (or other link to your work). In that order. Please follow this example exactly (you don't have to use initials if you prefer to be known by your full name!):

©J. M. Golding,  The divergence of dissonance/the dissonance of divergence; northern California, Kodak Brownie Fiesta,  Kodak Verichrome Pan, expired 3/60, http://www.jmgolding.com

All types of 127 film format are welcome, whether the film began its existence as 127, or you used 35 mm film in a 127 camera, or you respooled 46mm film, or you cut down 120 film to 127 size ... or maybe you have a technique that I don't know about yet - if so, please tell me so I can share it with others who love this format (with full credit to you, of course - or perhaps you'd like to write a short article for 127 Film Photography about it!). Photos made on 127 film in a different size camera are welcome too.

127 Film Photography will publish all photos received (as long as they are in 127 format and do not contain images of nudity, violence, or exploitation).

I look forward to seeing your 127 Day photos!

Dinky Antar Convoy w/No. 0 Brownie by Takgyver

Takgyver sends this one just for fun ...

 

©Takgyver

The Brownie and the mobile phone - surprising effects

In recent years, many of us have given a great deal of thought to how mobile phones have changed photography. To say that they've made photography widely available is an understatement. They've created new (often online) communities; for example, Facebook groups, Instagram, Flickr groups. There are also Meetup groups centering around mobile phone photography, and contests for, exhibitions of, and awards for mobile phone photography.

But this is not the first time that access to photography has expanded rapidly. A recent article by Eric Shewe (which summarizes an academic journal article by Marc Olivier) describes how, in 1900, Kodak's Brownie cameras - many of which use our lovely 127 film - increased access to photography as never before.

Shewe describes how Kodak introduced the first camera with easy-to-load film in 1888, but because of its expense, photography was still inaccessible to most people. The Brownie, at 4% of the price of Kodak's prior camera, "allowed women, children and the working classes to take pictures where, when, and how they wished." The parallel to the ubiquity of mobile phones seems clear.

The articles explain that the Brownie was named for fairy-tale sprites originating in Scottish folklore and popularized in a series of books and plays by Palmer Cox. (There is an image of an original advertisement for the Brownie, with the sprites looking at it and climbing on it, on p. 8 of Olivier's article).  Olivier saw Kodak's marketing of the Brownie as an attempt "to portray snapshot photography as a phenomenon both modern and magic" (p. 2) ... sound familiar?

Olivier also describes the beginnings of "snapshot culture" and Kodak's creation of the Brownie Club of America (p. 15) - although open only to children and younger teens, perhaps a in some sense forerunner to some of our contemporary online photography websites and groups.

Thanks to Mike Maguire for alerting me to Shewe's article!