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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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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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COP Events, Football, 1942
To close this series of press negatives off, below are all the images from events labeled 1942. The majority are from a football match. There’s absolutely no other information available. Shooting sports with a press camera is no mean feat. There is no time to focus, all shooting is done in predetermined focus zones and…
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