[Milsurplus] OT Re: Alfred Palmer, Photographer

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Alfred Palmer's occupational photographs  during WW2  are   amazing...
 
Thanks  for the  link Sam I really enjoyed reading about  his  early 
history.  
 
on  the  subject of posing ... remember too...  kodachrome  4x5 
transparency film had  a pretty  slow   ASA  rating  so   still posed  shots   were  
preferred to motion candids... I remember  working  with kodachrome  25  on  
my 35 mm  camera as a young person.   ...   no action  sports  shots!    
BUT... WHAT   YOU  DID  SHOOT  WAS SOOOO SHARP AND SOOOO COLOR SATURATED.   
AND... SOOO PERMANENT compared to   Ektachrome...    different  process 
different dyes...  
 
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
 
In a message dated 3/12/2012 10:31:22 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
sestokes at sonic.net writes:

Yes,  most of those pictures were carefully posed.

The photographer, Alfred  Palmer worked as a photographer for the Office 
of Wartime  Information
and, later the Farm Security Administration.

He was a  Long Beach/San Pedro guy...

Here's his home page.  <http://www.alfredtpalmer.com/>

-- 
Sam Stokes, Publisher,  KG6WYZ
3rd Edition of Rings of Supersonic Steel
The Last Missile  Site
Fort Baker Through the  Years
http://www.holeintheheadpress.com

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