Coming To A Close

(Included at the bottom of this entry are my most favorite photographs of Edwin's that do not appear in the final album)

As I wrap up the end of this project having started in the first week after learning of the assignment in September I sadly close this album. I have encountered many family stories and fantastic photographic opportunities within this endeavor. As I re-created the images and put together the final album mixing together the re-created images, a selected grouping of Edwin's collection and two studio photographs taken of Edwin's personal effects. These photographs are put together within an album that I found in a store near the University of Toronto campus. This album I felt added to Edwin's history as he was a conservationist and loved taking photos of flowers within his body of work. The photographs are accompanied with a short write up of what appears in the album and this blog acts as the second digital component of the overall project.

Through this entire journey I feel like I have succeeded in finding my ancestor and fellow image artist and the forgotten photographer.

Sincerely,
Lizz Hodgson
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Pieces that do not appear in the final album:

(Black and white photograph painted by hand onto the glass slide)

Shooting the re-makes of the photgraphs

This blog includes some of the process shots in the re-making of Edwin Haynes' pieces.

The plaque outside of University College on University of Toronto campus where the Newel post was rumored to be.

Wide angle of University College on University of Toronto campus

My Father standing at the top of the staircase above the Newel Post after we had located it

My Father standing in Stouffville, Ontario comparing the main stretch of Main street as well as helping me deduce the angle at which to capture the re-make

Surprise discovery on the main stretch of Stouffville, Ontario. In the clock tower that appears in the original Haynes photograph I came across a plaque commemorating those who donated to the re-building of the town's clock tower. Two significant to my family appear engraved in the stone Mrs. H. Hodgson who is related directly to my blood line and three above that you can see one Ambrose Stover who was Edwin Haynes' Father in law. This was a fantastic family find!

My Father posing for the re-make of Edwin's self-portrait. We have dressed him similar to what Edwin appears in as well against a background that comes close to that in which appears in the original.

My Father working as a camera assistant in the set up of the studio photograph of Edwin's personal effects that we still have today in our family's possession

The final copies of these re-made images are found within the tangible album component of this project.