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Carson Pass, JFC, Nov 1971
These images taken in and around Carson Pass. This is an area Joel visited a few times. Earliest photograph in this area was a 1941 Kodachrome when Joel joined the College of Pacific yearly Death Valley trip. Carson Pass is a mountain pass on the crest of the central Sierra Nevada, in the Eldorado National Forest and Alpine County, eastern California. This area…
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Coastal Trees, JFC, 1957
There’s this sleeve in the Jessica Fong Collection promising a COP football match in 1957, and all I found were positive 4×5″ B&W slides of trees taken in a coastal area, most likely between Santa Cruz and Carmel. Although there are 8 images in the sleeve, only 3 negatives were involved. Joel is experimenting with…
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Vallecito, Big Trees, Calaveras, JFC, 1964-1965
That’s the reference of the Jessica Fong Collection 4×5″ negative sleeve we’ll be looking at today. There was no further description, and in light of multiple subjects, I assume that Joel may not have remembered for sure when this was shot at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park as it is currently known. These are…
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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…
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Stockton Oak Trees, JFC
This sleeve with negatives from the Jessica Fong Collection of Dardis negatives, contains about twenty 4×5″ negatives with mostly oak trees as subject. There is no timeframe mentioned, so I assume that this collection can span quite a period, especially in light of the apartment building in the last negatives. Joel worked hard to captures…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 