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COP Football, Box 59, 1948

The next set of negatives in this box dated June-July 1948, are football practice related. Joel reminds us that he’s still working hard on his photography portfolio. And Joel got finally his first portrait of Amos Alonzo Stagg, the “Grand Old Man of Football”, head coach for the Pacific Tigers from 1933 to 1946, and…
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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…
