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Salley, Box 99, July 1957
The date associated with the Salley (sic) images is Sunday, July 14, 1957. There’s a construction subject also with a second date of July 19, 1957. Salley and her mother must have been family friends or close neighbors. Joel would photograph Salley later in life also on other occasions. These photographs were most likely taken…
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St-Mary’s School, Box 97, 1956
After our brief 1957 excursion in 4×5 negatives, we’re back in 1956, so we’ll be looking at press format sized negatives again. These images all relate to the ground breaking for the new St-Mary’s school in May (?) 1956. I believe Joel followed up with some construction-in-progress images also later that year. The school is…
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Carson Mansion, JFC, circa 1957
The second sleeve out of Jessica Fong’s Collection of Dardis photography contains 4×5 B&W negatives. Thats a major departure from Joel’s use of press sized negatives (4.25″ x 3.25″, or 3×4 in short) This implies that Joel bought himself a new camera to work with. Although upgrading from 3×4 to 4×5 doesn’t seem much, it’s…
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Clyde Beatty Clowns, JFC, May 1949
Jessica Fong gracefully lent me her collection of Joel Dardis negatives acquired at the estate sales for scanning and archiving. These all came in envelope sleeves, a storage method Joel switched to, sometime getting back to photography in the mid 50’s. He still used boxes, but both Jessica and I have multiple envelopes full of…
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Linden, Box 96, 1955
Box 96 has two more descriptions written on the side. “Linden Play, March 21, 1955” and “Linden Graduation, June 12, 1955”. Since there are three dates on the box, with only 22 negatives in total, it appears to me that Joel is only photographing sporadic events. That’s quite a few images for the play. For…
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The Clowns, SF Examiner, Jun 1954
Courtesy of Jessica Fong, Executive Director at Stockton Art League Goodwin Gallery, the attached San Francisco Examiner Photography Page pdf of Sunday, Jun 13, 1954. A page chock full of art and photography news. And in all of it, there’s an image of Joel Dardis, who won the $5 weekly photo contest with a fun…
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Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 