Episode #14: The Ephemeral Machine: The Farewell Episode Dear Listeners, The Ephemeral Machine: A Podcast About Collecting Cameras presents its Farewell Episode.  Please join me for a very brief message as I conclude this podcast and venture on to other exciting and creative opportunities. It has been my pleasure to present these previous thirteen episodes and I hope that you have found them entertaining, rewarding, and educational. My very best wishes to all in the Film Photography...

Episode #13: The Silver Halide Sessions - James Ollinger: The Genre Collector The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. Occasionally, a member of our community focusses on a very specific area of Camera Collecting and in doing so, provides access to a veritable wealth of information that allows us to align with a different and fascination aspect of this hobby.. James Ollinger has...

Episode #12: The Silver Halide Sessions - Marti Steiner Jones: The Legacy Collector The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. The world of Film Camera Collecting would not be complete without an appreciation of the earlier representations of this complex and comprehensive interest. Marti Steiner Jones maintains an extensive collection of cameras and photographic ephemera that...

Episode #11: The Silver Halide Sessions - Alyssa Chiarello: The Collector as Altruist The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. Aly’s Vintage Camera Alley has become a staple in the Film Camera Community’s clearinghouse of information, research, history and technique. Aly’s well-defined approach to helping those interested in investing time and energy into this wonderful hobby is...

Episode #10: The Silver Halide Sessions - Lisa Murphy: The Collector as Archivist/Historian The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. My guest, Lisa Murphy, hails from the east coast of Ireland, not too far from Ireland’s capital city of Dublin. Holding university degrees in archives, public history, and ancient history and archaeology, she has spent the past decade working in...

Episode #9: The Silver Halide Sessions - Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs: The Collector as Vox Populi The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. As the celebrated hosts of the popular podcast I Dream of Cameras, Jeff Greenstein and Gabe Sachs continue to inform and entertain the Film Photography community with their wit, effervescence, and experience as passionate camera collectors...

Episode #8: The Silver Halide Sessions - Theo Panagopoulos: The Collector as Liaison The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. Theo Panagopoulos’ profound influence on the Film Photography Community is marked by his many contributions including his role as Editor of the popular blog Photo Thinking and co-host of the enormously successful Podcast, Camerosity with Mike Eckman,...

Episode #7: The Silver Halide Sessions - Danielle Wrobleski: The Girl With Too Many Cameras The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. This episode we return to the Silver Halide Sessions with a visit from celebrated Photographer, Collector, Writer and Advocate, Danielle Wrobleski. Danielle’s Instagram presence “girlwithtoomanycameras” combined with her advocacy work involving...

Is a "Camera" only a "Camera" if it's loaded with Film? This episode I take a brief break from the Silver Halide Sessions to explore some thoughts and ideas concerning the film camera's role in the Photographic Apparatus. Hamish Gill joins me as we strip away the "Remjet of Representation" and expose the true existence of the Camera's purpose.  Join us on the journey! __________________________________________________________ Many of the cameras and/or references made during the...

Episode #5: The Silver Halide Sessions - Vladislav Kern: The Collector as Archivist The Ephemeral Machine presents another in the series of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. I sit down with well-respected Collector and Archivist, Vladislav Kern, and discuss the development of his film camera collection, how it is aligned with the complex history of the Soviet Photographic Industry, its maintenance, display techniques and...

Episode #4: The Silver Halide Sessions - Anthony Rue: The Collector as Auteur The Ephemeral Machine presents the first of The Silver Halide Sessions: Interviews with Collectors, Aficionados, Historians, and Archivists. I sit down with well-respected Photographer and collector, Anthony Rue, and discuss the development of his film camera collection, how it is maintained and the correlation he draws between photography and photographica. Many of the cameras and/or references made during...

Welcome to Episode #3! We're on a Roll! In this episode, your host: - ponders Postmodernism and deconstructs the Yashica Y35 with the help of Jean Baudrillard. - tips his hat to the fine Film Photography Podcasts that he shares the airwaves with including one, in particular, that has caught his fancy - Asks Film Camera Collectors the hard question: What's on Your Shelf? And is it Broken? And do You Care? Guest Camera Collectors are on deck! Stay Tuned!  The Links: The Ephemeral...

This episode, our host attempts to rationalize the absurdly pretentious Podcast title and introduces “The Collection!” To see the images discussed in this episode, check out The Ephemeral Machine Instagram page: theephemeralmachine Visit our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/theephemeralmachinepodcast Drop us a line! [email protected]

Welcome the the Inaugural episode of The Ephemeral Machine! Join our journey into the depths of Film Camera Collecting. Stop by the instagram page. Our handle is: theephemeralmachine or our Facebook page:  The Ephemeral Machine Podcast Facebook Page