Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Tag: Negatives

  • Team Sports, Box 15, 1946

    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…

  • 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…

  • June 6, 1948, Box 14

    June 6, 1948, Box 14

    Jumping ahead a few years, and breaking the chronology, this box is part of the expired negatives that Joel used up prior to buying new stock after his return from WWII service. June 6, 1948 is Joel’s 27th birthday and it appears that quite a few of the people present on June 6, 1943, are…

  • 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…

  • Press Negatives, Box 12, 1946

    Press Negatives, Box 12, 1946

    Joel left quite a few press negative boxes behind with 1942 and 1943 “process by” dates, but pencil dates between 1946 and 1948. Looks like Joel had quite some boxes in stock prior to his WWII service, and back in Stockton at the Stockton Junior College, he’s using this stock up first. It shouldn’t come…

  • 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…

  • Press Negatives, Box 11, 1942

    Press Negatives, Box 11, 1942

    Last box I found with the “Feb 19, 1943” date written on it and “Pictures Taken 1942” Twenty two negatives in a box of 12 and a mix of subjects. There’s also a mix of types of film based on shape of the notches on the negatives. Starting out with family images. One cannot escape…

  • Press Negatives, Box 10, 1942

    Press Negatives, Box 10, 1942

    When doing the first scan of the negatives in box 10, it becomes clear that boxes 9 through 11 got mixed and they all got a few stragglers in them. Twinty negatives squeezed in a box of 12, something has to give. All these negatives are, according to the writing on the box, photographed in…