I found this photo at a thrift store in Sonora, CA. I was wondering if there is any way to figure out the mans name from the signature of the photographer and the markings on the back.
Finding out identity of man in photo
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Can you please add a photo or scan of the photo you bought?
I may have some suggestions.
also, what thrift store?
Can you please add a photo or scan of the photo you bought?
I may have some suggestions.
also, what thrift store?
Could it be the ex medical student called Griffin?
a.k.a. The Invisible Man.
a.k.a. The Invisible Man.
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That is most certainly the Invisible Man in a snowstorm...
Or scientist Daniel Westin (David McCallum).
John Doe
I'm kinda wondering what happened to the OP.
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You have the photographer's signature, right? Probably, your best bet would be to try to locate the photographer and ask them.
IF the person is from the area of Sonora, CA, and IF the person in the photo is not of advanced age, then you MIGHT be able to recognize the person from a high school year book photo. Of course, there is no guarantee the person has any association with the area where the photo ended up, so it would be a long shot. According to Wikipedia, Sonora is a small town, so it's unlikely there was more than one high school. Still, it would require a reasonable estimate of the man's age, and some research would be required to track down the appropriate year books. How bad do want to know?
You could try a reverse image search website. But unless there is already a digital version of the photo online somewhere (with the information you want), then that is not likely to be helpful.
Finally, there is facial recognition software; but I'm guessing those databases are usually only available to law enforcement, so not really an option unless you know somebody.
IF the person is from the area of Sonora, CA, and IF the person in the photo is not of advanced age, then you MIGHT be able to recognize the person from a high school year book photo. Of course, there is no guarantee the person has any association with the area where the photo ended up, so it would be a long shot. According to Wikipedia, Sonora is a small town, so it's unlikely there was more than one high school. Still, it would require a reasonable estimate of the man's age, and some research would be required to track down the appropriate year books. How bad do want to know?
You could try a reverse image search website. But unless there is already a digital version of the photo online somewhere (with the information you want), then that is not likely to be helpful.
Finally, there is facial recognition software; but I'm guessing those databases are usually only available to law enforcement, so not really an option unless you know somebody.
Yes he joined, posted a "one liner" with no photo for us to examine and left 7 mins later and hasn't been seen since. It strikes me as a little strange.
Perhaps it's a bet with someone that despite little information and no further help on this we can still generate a thread with X posts?
Anyway if we haven't reached X posts yet then my post should help. It's bound to draw several more posts counselling "restraint" on my part in the loosest sense of restraint
pentaxuser
Such things happen. Someone joins a handful of forums and asks the same question - might take a while to come back - might never come back. Such is life....
MattKing
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The OP may have had trouble uploading the image, and as a result gave up and left.
If they want to try again, we can give some helpful suggestions.
If they want to try again, we can give some helpful suggestions.
Only 3 extra posts so far but the repartee has been good at least
On a slightly more serious vein, Matt can I ask what you would have done if you had seen a photo in a shop that you genuinely hoped or even thought that someone on Photrio might have some idea of his identity but then discovered that you didn't know how to upload the persons photo so we could see him?
pentaxuser
On a slightly more serious vein, Matt can I ask what you would have done if you had seen a photo in a shop that you genuinely hoped or even thought that someone on Photrio might have some idea of his identity but then discovered that you didn't know how to upload the persons photo so we could see him?
pentaxuser
MattKing
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Post and ask how to do it.
And I would answer the same way I did in another thread just 27 minutes ago:
"If you resize your image to a jpeg with quality 80 and a longest dimension of 1000 pixels it should upload well.".
And I would answer the same way I did in another thread just 27 minutes ago:
"If you resize your image to a jpeg with quality 80 and a longest dimension of 1000 pixels it should upload well.".
"It's Guitar George...he knows all the chords..."
They say an old guitar is all he can afford.
Only one page of discussion so far? Come on, we can do better than this. 
OK, I'll give it a try.
Guy's name is William "Billy" J. Perkins. He was a sargent in the US Army, did two tours in Korea between 1951 and 1953. Perkins was originally from Ottumwa, Iowa. He had enlisted in the US Army right after his father died at Iwo Jima in early March 1945.
Photo was actually taken in Salt Lake City, Utah (how it got to Sonoma, CA, is an interesting story in itself), on June 25th, 1954. Billy Perkis was then stationed in Pocatello, Idaho, but used to go visit friends in Salt Lake City on weekends (thus the reason why he's not in uniform on the photo). Photographer in this particular case was not the one whose name appears on the back side of the photo, but, as was often the case in these days, his assistant, one Montgomery "Monty" Jones, originally from Perry, Georgia, who later returned to his home state and for a few years ran a successful photo studio in Augusta.
A couple of interesting photo facts related to this story. For one, Billy Perkins' father, Robert J. Perkins, was standing right next to Joe Rosenthal when he shot his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. You can actually see Robert J. on a couple of frames on Rosenthal's contact sheets for that day (ressemblance with his son Billy is quite striking).
Monty Jones got his taste for photography from briefly meeting Gordon Parks in Washington, D.C., not long after the photographer got hired by Roy Striker.
Other fun fact: one of the consultants on the show M*A*S*H* — I forget his name — had served in Korea, had met Billy Perkins there, and had told a few stories about him to Larry Gelbart. The fact that Walter "Radar" O'Reilly is from Ottumwa, Iowa, his farm-boy naiveté and a few other personality traits of the character played by Gary Burghoff that weren't stated in the original book or movie, were inspired by the real-life Billy Perkins. Perkins never got to see the show. He died in 1967 from a heart attack while visiting his sister in Santa Rosa, California.
Did I get it right?
And now, please can we get a few dating website stories?
Not sure. William "Billy" J. Perkins seems to be a mighty common name, and I'm not !00% convinced you've got the right one.
See that tiny, L-shaped scar right under his left eye? That's your proof right there. Shell fragment from a grenade explosion in Korea. Nearly made him blind.
Fine but the OP did not do that but no doubt there's a reason for that as well All I can say is that his behaviour seems strange for someone who thought that there might be someone amongst us who know who the man was. Well strange to me at least and I may not be alone in feeling that way based on the entertaining posts since
Periodically we seem to be getting very similar "first posts" in the last year or so as "one offs". It always seems to involve finding a photograph and the person wants to know how much it might be worth. whether its genuine etc
pentaxuser
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