Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: 1946

  • Three Girls, Box 18, 1946

    Three Girls, Box 18, 1946

    That’s what’s written on the cover of press negative box 18. It also says June-July 1946. I believe this was somewhere at COP, and it is also possible more than one photographer was involved that day. It’s all an exercise in grouping and angles. And fighting the California sun. Squinted eyes and stressed faces, not…

  • Family, Pool, Box 17, 1946

    Family, Pool, Box 17, 1946

    Box 17 contains 12 negatives. There are few names on the cover of this box, there’s just no certain way to attach a name to a face as that relationship is lost to non-family members. Yes, Joel is photographing a few Pahl family members. Some of the faces we’ve seen before on his 22nd and…

  • More etc., box 16, 1946

    More etc., box 16, 1946

    Second significant subject in box 16 was more track and field. A different day than the pole vaults we covered few blog posts past, witness the clouds in the sky. And then there are few more portrait shots from the swimming pool area and we’ll keep the outlier for last. The pole vault and the…

  • Portraits, Box 16, 1946

    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…

  • Track, etc., Box 15, 1946

    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…

  • Fashion Event, Box 15, 1946

    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…

  • Events, Box 13, 1946

    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…

  • Campus Days, Box 13, 1946

    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…

  • Press Negatives, Box 13, 1946

    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…

  • Kodachrome, April 23, 1946

    Kodachrome, April 23, 1946

    April 23, 1946 says the processing slip in the next box of Kodachromes sent back to Joel from the Los Angeles processing center. Clearly after the war, so we know Joel made it back home. There are 12 slides in a box of 12, but that doesn’t mean that they are in the proper box…