Another Sarge Portrait

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  clogz

• Nov 8, 2004

Over the years I have seen so many war documentaries but you are hardly ever shown faces of individual saillors, soldiers or airmen. That's why i like looking at pictures like this one.

 

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  joeyk49

• Nov 8, 2004

I love the way they used to cock their hat, lid, helmet, cover... to the side or at a slight angle. It realy humanizes the photo. Not the same cookie cutter deadly serious stare with everything squared away that seems to be popular today.

These are nice photos; well shot.

 

• MikeK

• Nov 8, 2004

I will be posting some more of this fellows work on my web site. I have just finshed scanning another batch of negatives and these portraits are different. You can see the fatigue and strain in the eyes of these soldiers and sailors.

Let me know if anyone is interested and I will post the link

Mike

 

• Eric Jones

• Nov 9, 2004

Mike,

I would love to see the real thing, so please post a link when you finish up. That is the amazing thing about film, the photos you're working on are over 60 years old! Great work on the restoration, it looks like it was shot yesterday.

 

• Pbridges

• Nov 9, 2004

The fatigue and strain in the eyes of the sailors and soldiers that you refer to was called the "thousand yard stare". Those eyes seem able to bore a hole right through one. It was the effect of almost constant combat and hard living conditions. It is an excellant shot and I would like to see more.

 

• MikeK

• Nov 10, 2004

Thanks for the kudos. It is time consuming work but worth the effort. Here is the link to my site that contains some of the restoration work along with some comments and observations. http://home.pacbell.net/mkirwan/frank_pataye.htm

- Mike

 

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  Dan Henderson

• Oct 1, 2006

Great image. One of my most treasured possessions is a cigar box of letters my father wrote home to his mother during WWII. In the box I found about a dozen 120 negatives taken by and of my dad during basic training. It always makes me wonder what those innocent young eyes saw during the next few years, as, like so many vets, he never talked about his experiences.