Postwar children of Paris - April 1947
May 1, 2014 11:28:56 #
RichardQ wrote:
My 1938 Automatic Rolleiflex got a workout in Apri... (show quote)
These are great Richard, thank you so much for sharing them with us!
May 1, 2014 11:33:10 #
RichardQ wrote:
My 1938 Automatic Rolleiflex got a workout in Apri... (show quote)
These photos are absolutely amazing!
May 1, 2014 11:41:51 #
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May 1, 2014 12:15:20 #
Graham Smith wrote:
Most importantly these prints are in very good condition, the majority of images taken by amateurs at that time are in poor condition. By amateur I don't mean that these picture suffer by being taken by an amateur, quite the contrary, it boosts their credibility.
The original negatives of my 1946-1953 period have been stored in glassine envelopes since they were exposed, rather than having been loosely thrown into shoeboxes, etc., so they should be in pretty good shape for negative scanning. I got that idea from the photo lab at my Army Air Force base in occupied Germany. Several of my fellow GIs were trained in the Air Force's photography school at Lowry Air base in Denver and later became professional photographers. The most famous was Peter Gowland, who was well-known in the 1950s to 1990s for his pin-up shots (attractive girls in bathing suits) as well as for his design and manufacture of the large-format interchangeable twin-lens Gowlandflex camera for professionals. Peter passed away last year.
May 1, 2014 12:18:45 #
RichardQ wrote:
My 1938 Automatic Rolleiflex got a workout in Apri... (show quote)
These are interesting because of the historical context.
May 1, 2014 13:29:00 #
Farmers Wife
Loc: Louisburg, KS
I loved the post. It would be fun to find these people today. I hope they had a long an d happy life...thanks to men like you.
May 1, 2014 13:40:10 #
RichardQ wrote:
The original negatives of my 1946-1953 period have... (show quote)
Sorry to hear about Peter, I met him once here in San Francisco, who can forget the monstrous large format twin lens cameras he produced.
May 1, 2014 15:21:52 #
DEC wrote:
Richard, once again, great photos and story line. I just love it all, please keep them coming. Thank you so much. Dave
Thank you for your comments, Dave. I didn't realize that people would be so interested in such out-of-date subjects. I'm sure some historians are fuming at my short-hand descriptions of complex events.
May 1, 2014 15:26:07 #
noknees438 wrote:
Thanks Richard, a look back at history and the times in a way that only a picture, and not a book of words, can do.
Thanks for checking these out, Noknees438. My snapshots tried to show the people and environments which survived the insanity of war, without wallowing in its bloody horrors.
May 1, 2014 15:28:27 #
angler wrote:
Keep them coming Richard,amazing photos.
Thank you, Angler. I'm dumbfounded that anyone would consider them "amazing."
May 1, 2014 15:34:00 #
GWR100 wrote:
Brilliant archive set Richard, the quality issue you mention only adds to the raw beauty of the pictures, please don't change them
Geoff
Geoff
"Raw beauty" made me lift my eyebrows, Geoff, but I guess there's no chance that I'll change them because I don't know how. I like to think some archivist would consider using them to augment a collection.
May 1, 2014 15:48:21 #
richgin60 wrote:
Great pics, thanks for sharing. Just finished reading "the Book Thief" a story about a child in Germany living through the war.
Thank you for your comment, Richgin60. Since you're interested in the period, may I suggest a very realistic 1948 film, "The Search," starring an early Montgomery Clift as a GI in occupied Germany who rescues a Czech refugee child? A German film, "Die Brücke" [The Bridge] is about how the Nazis were willing to assign teenage boys to sure-death missions in the last days of Hitler's Third Reich. It's a must-see, but I'm not sure if it's available with captions or dubbed.
May 1, 2014 15:49:52 #
A huge ditto! Please do keep posting these wonderful images.
Graham Smith wrote:
Richard, you really don't need to be apologising for the quality, the content is enthralling, these images should be archived somewhere.
Graham
Graham
May 1, 2014 15:56:26 #
Wow that was back when I was real young. Thanks for sharing your pictures with us.
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