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Yosemite, JFC, 1965
This 4×5″ negative sleeve has “Yosemite, June 1965” in pencil writing. The majority of these images are of sequoia, and I believe these are in the Mariposa Grove at the South Entrance. This would have made most sense in light of the trip from Stockton at the time, and the observation Joel left us with…
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Lake Tahoe in 4×5, JFC, 1966
This 4×5″ negative sleeve from the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives plays at Lake Tahoe. The date is August 12, 1966. Joel is visiting or passing through there with friends. Joel is shooting 4×5 film, both standard B&W and few sheets of infrared. Joel is using a timer to trip the shutter of his…
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Selfies with Koni-Omega camera, JFC, 1971
This sleeve with 4×5″ negatives are all Joel selfies, upon closer examination, there are only two poses, and Joel created different “looks” of these negatives. It’s only a guess that these are circa 1971, but could of course be a few years later. Joel is 50 in 1971. The camera Joel is holding is Koni-Omega…
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Carson Pass, JFC, Nov 1971
These images taken in and around Carson Pass. This is an area Joel visited a few times. Earliest photograph in this area was a 1941 Kodachrome when Joel joined the College of Pacific yearly Death Valley trip. Carson Pass is a mountain pass on the crest of the central Sierra Nevada, in the Eldorado National Forest and Alpine County, eastern California. This area…
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Boat stuck in Stockton Channel, Sleeve 1
By chance, the first sleeve with 4×5″ negatives in my own collection of Joel Dardis negatives, had as subject yet another boat. This brought up memories of the first negatives I got to see from 1938, where Joel photographed a boat where a worker had an accident. In this case Joel only shot 3 negatives.…
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Woman in Boat, Sleeve 2, 1959
There’s a regatta in Stockton on July 19, 1959. Joel loves boats and he is present. This particular sleeve also has “Woman in boat” written across. Five 4×5″ negatives in total. I also came across 3 images Joel cropped and printed from these negatives. This gives us some insight on how Joel sees into his…
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Coastal Trees, JFC, 1957
There’s this sleeve in the Jessica Fong Collection promising a COP football match in 1957, and all I found were positive 4×5″ B&W slides of trees taken in a coastal area, most likely between Santa Cruz and Carmel. Although there are 8 images in the sleeve, only 3 negatives were involved. Joel is experimenting with…
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Vallecito, Big Trees, Calaveras, JFC, 1964-1965
That’s the reference of the Jessica Fong Collection 4×5″ negative sleeve we’ll be looking at today. There was no further description, and in light of multiple subjects, I assume that Joel may not have remembered for sure when this was shot at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park as it is currently known. These are…
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UOP Football, JFC, 1961
This sleeve with 4×5″ negatives from the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis Negatives mentions Sept 27 – Nov 15, 1961, UOP Football. None of the limit dates correspond with a football match at UOP as far as my research shows. In between these two dates there are 9 matches in total. There are 9 negatives…
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Yosemite in Infrared, JFC, 1963-1964
Another 4×5″ negatives sleeve in the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives contains Yosemite landscapes photographed on infrared film. This is something Joel did quite regularly between 1962-1965. It does give a dramatic twist when done with a good amount of red filtering. In the order as found, here they are: The green foliage turns…
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