Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: B&W

  • Stockton Prints, Sleeve 4, 1972

    Stockton Prints, Sleeve 4, 1972

    We’re taking a big jump in time. Keeping some sort of chronology, with Joel organizing his negatives in various sleeves, stored across multiple boxes, becomes difficult. This particular sleeve stood out as the writing reads “Stockton, prints made, 16×20”. This is a pretty large print format and with matte for framing, leads easily to a…

  • French Riviera, Beach Party, June 1945

    French Riviera, Beach Party, June 1945

    All the negatives in this blogpost are courtesy Liz Schuler. We know Joel photographed during his service in World War II. We’ve seen images of his training, his trip across the country to different camps, and one image of a camp mate scrubbing a latrine. The images in this envelope had both negatives and printed…

  • COP – UCLA, JFC, 1957

    COP – UCLA, JFC, 1957

    Another football match recorded by Joel Dardis, with 4×5″ negatives from the Jessica Fong Collection. Joel photographed most of them with the telephoto lenses he’s been playing with from the bleachers. The date is November 16, 1957. Based on the amount of slant in the images, I assume Joel photographed from two different locations, possibly…

  • Yosemite, JFC, July 1961

    Yosemite, JFC, July 1961

    The sleeve in the Jessica Fong Collection has the exact date, July 1, 1961. Three weeks after Joel’s 40th birthday. These are all 4×5″ negatives and the first images we’ve ever seen from this area as photographed by Joel. Previous land and seascapes were all closer to home, and the majority were located at the…

  • COP – Fresno State, JFC, 1957

    COP – Fresno State, JFC, 1957

    Next 4×5″ negative sleeve in the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives has 7 negatives of the Pacific Tigers versus Fresno State Bulldogs, on September 28, 1957. Joel is back in the bleachers, playing with his telephoto lenses and exploring the possibilities. The first and last image are shots that Joel couldn’t have taken from…

  • Lens Test at COP, JFC, May 1957

    Lens Test at COP, JFC, May 1957

    With a new camera typically come new lenses. As far as I can tell, Joel used a single lens on his Press Graflex RB Super D, and that is the 152 mm Kodak Ektar lens this camera most often came with. (or a 190mm lens for the 4×5″ format Super D.) Below an images of…

  • Portrait, Basketball, Box 104, 1960

    Portrait, Basketball, Box 104, 1960

    There are still a few negatives left in the “High Time Fire” negative box. The basketball images are from a Pacific-Fresno State match or were these images from the HIgh Time movie ? Joel’s camera doesn’t move an inch, so it is mounted on a tripod and that is something we didn’t see yet from…

  • High Time Movie Fire, Box 104, March 1, 1960

    High Time Movie Fire, Box 104, March 1, 1960

    Setting a short step back in time. We’re in 1960, and Joel covered the “High Time Fire”. The date next to the event is Tuesday, March 1, 1960. Then it dawned on me that the “High Time” reference must be related to the HIgh Time movie. I had no idea till today that this movie…

  • Various 4×5″ negatives, JFC

    Various 4×5″ negatives, JFC

    One of the negative sleeves I just came across in the Jessica Fong Collection has a few subjects stashed away. The writing on the sleeve relates to a lens test Joel did on his new Graphic View camera in 1957. Why these negatives ended up in this unrelated sleeve will always remain a mystery. As…

  • Infrared Stockton & Santa Cruz, JFC, 1963

    Infrared Stockton & Santa Cruz, JFC, 1963

    I mentioned before that Joel did some decent experimentation with infrared film in the early 1961-1963 time period. Since the previous blog post covered the 1962-1963 UOP Burns Tower construction, I’m throwing few more 4×5″ negatives in from the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives. The writing on the sleeve says “Infrared, Stockton and Santa…