Paul,
Thank you for sharing this photo!
Very nice photo with a character coming through.
What is interesting to me is that it is also rather representative of
that epoch. I immediately thought that it reminded me of a famous
in the former Soviet Union movie "Two soldiers" with a very popular
Russian actor Mark Bernes. As I just verified it was produced in 1942-1943
and released in 1943.
While there were views that (at least in my memory) would be even more
close to the photo of your dad, here is a photo of Mark Bernes in that
role (it might be even a frame from the movie) that illustrates what
I am talking about:
http://mtdata.ru/u1/photoD42B/20857517004-0/original.jpg
It is not the facial similarities (although there are some), but the
overall style.
Regards,
Igor
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
This picture was taken by a U.S. Army Air Forces photographer at Turner
Field, Georgia in 1943. My dad was a photographer at that base and a
fellow worker shot this pic of him on 8x10 film. I have an original
contact print on fiber paper. It's in good shape with just a few cracks
and specs here and there. I had tried scanning it once before but was
unhappy with the results so I did it again today. It has a broad tonal
range so it's a bit tricky. Much happier with this scan.
Dad was the kindest man I've ever known. Fortunately, he was too old for
combat in 1943 so he worked as a photographer, first at Turner Field and
later at the Pentagon. He probably wouldn't have mad a very good killer,
but he was an excellent photographer and artist. While at Turner Field
he painted a huge mural in the chapel. His murals once decorated a
number of Chicago residences and buildings, including the lobby of the
long-ago-demolished Edgewater Beach Hotel.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17903100&size=lg
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