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Portraits, Box 16, 1946
The vast majority of the negatives in box 16 are portraits and I believe this the result of a class assignment. There are portraits indoors and outdoors, some of the outdoors portraits utilize a reflector in an attempt to enhance facial lighting. There are a total of four young ladies in the picture, I don’t…
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Track, etc., Box 15, 1946
Few images from a track event in 1946. From a photographer’s perspective, Joel is learning how to freeze images in motion. This would be perfectly in line with a class objective, and it is a necessary skill for a photographer to grasp all the concepts required to freeze motion. What is not clear to me…
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Team Sports, Box 15, 1946
We’ve seen Joel photograph basketball and football before. He’s covering the team plays at COP. Photographing sports is difficult, even more so then than now. It takes a lot of practice and there was no instant feedback. The photographer had to wait till development time to gauge the quality of his or her images. Photographing…
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Fashion Event, Box 15, 1946
Box 15 contains 35 negatives with multiple subjects and some miscellaneous press format negatives. Topic of this blog post is a 1946 Fashion Event at COP. We know from Pacific publications there were fashion clubs and a yearly fashion event most years. Let’s take a look what was considered fashionable in 1946 for ladies. Location…
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Large Color Slides, 9/5/1948
Since we broke the chronology yesterday with the June 6, 1943 and 1948 birthday images of Joel (22nd and 27th birthday respectively), let’s stay in 1948 for a little longer. I found these 4 medium frame 2 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ image size slides in an envelope tucked between boxes and these don’t fit in…
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June 6, 1948, Box 14
Jumping ahead a few years, and breaking the chronology, this box is part of the expired negatives that Joel used up prior to buying new stock after his return from WWII service. June 6, 1948 is Joel’s 27th birthday and it appears that quite a few of the people present on June 6, 1943, are…
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Events, Box 13, 1946
I realize that “Events” is a broad denominator, but without comparable images from Naranjado 1946 or without any corroborating stories in the Pacific Review around this time period, we can’t be absolutely sure which event(s) are depicted below. But “events” are definitely something Joel documents through photography rather than participating, or so it seems. All…
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Campus Days, Box 13, 1946
What, when and where, is not mentioned by Joel but we can safely assume that this is on a College of the Pacific property during one of their sponsored events. Some of the faces start to look familiar. There were 24 negatives in this section, quite a few are duplicates though, This is, a copy…
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Press Negatives, Box 13, 1946
I could immediately tell this box was packed. Much heavier than what I had opened before. Thirty six slides packed in a box of 12. Fun day, theater 1946 and some more illegible scribbles. Joel’s handwriting is at times challenging. After scanning, I was able to group this in mostly three subjects. Checking the Pacific…
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Press Negatives, Box 12, 1946
Joel left quite a few press negative boxes behind with 1942 and 1943 “process by” dates, but pencil dates between 1946 and 1948. Looks like Joel had quite some boxes in stock prior to his WWII service, and back in Stockton at the Stockton Junior College, he’s using this stock up first. It shouldn’t come…
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Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 