Kodak Medalist travels to Japanese battle sites (good link added)

[Dan Daniel]

Last year I overhauled and converted a Medalist (1) for a landscape architecture student. She was working on the effects of war on the landscape in Japan and was going to be traveling there. In her research she had run into a variety of images taken with Medalists and decided to use one for some of the field work on the trip. She sent me a preliminary write-up of the work, including photos (not all with a Medalist).

I know that there are many people familiar with the Medalist here. I asked and she is fine if I post a link to her paper. So here you go inf anyone is interested-

https://hu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/emilykim_gsd_harvard_edu/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Femilykim%5Fgsd%5Fharvard%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FISLAND%20RESEARCH%2FRadcliffe%20Project%2F1013%20A5%20Book%20Folder%2F80%20Years%20of%20Occupation%5FEK%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Femilykim%5Fgsd%5Fharvard%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FISLAND%20RESEARCH%2FRadcliffe%20Project%2F1013%20A5%20Book%20Folder&ga=1

Moderator edit: here's the new link that's also featured in post #6:

 

[loccdor]

Thanks Dan, it sounds interesting. Though, that link does require an account to access.

 

[aconbere]

I’d love to check out her work, but on logging into my microsoft account it says that my account needs to be added to the Harvard domain. Doesn’t appear to have been made publicly accessible.

 

[Dan Daniel]

hmmm.... I'll contact her and see if she has a better link. Sorry about that...

 

[pbromaghin]

History buff that I am I would love to see this. Please make it accessible.

 

[Dan Daniel]

Second try. The first link was not accessible. This is now on my google drive. PLEASE!!! Be respectful of the author's rights. DO NOT distribute without permission!!!)

Last year I overhauled and converted a Medalist (1) for a landscape architecture student. She was working on the effects of war on the landscape in Japan and was going to be traveling there. In her research she had run into a variety of images taken with Medalists and decided to use one for some of the field work on the trip. She sent me a preliminary write-up of the work, including photos (not all with a Medalist).

I know that there are many people familiar with the Medalist here. I asked and she is fine if I post a link to her paper. So here you go if anyone is interested.

I am not going to post contact info for Ms. Kim. If you would like to contact her DM me and I'll get you her email. She says that she has more photos taken with the Medalist on her trip, and that she'd be interested in comments, etc. Depending on how this thread goes I will probably send her a link to this thread directly, but I am certainly not going to be posting contact info here.



(consider this a test. I'll come back and remove this line if the link is working)

 

[MattKing]

It worked for me as follows:
1) I clicked on the link;
2) my Chrome browser with Adobe Acrobat extension installed offered me the option of opening it in Adobe Acrobat. I chose that;
3) the entire document opened in a separate Adobe Acrobat tab at the top of my browser window, within which I could search and scroll to my heart's content.
I only use the free Acrobat extension. It looks like I could download the pdf to my hard drive if I wanted to read and review the 44 pages while off line.
It is fascinating - please thank Ms. Kim for permitting you to share it with us.

 

[aconbere]

Agreed I enjoyed the journey.

It reminds me of a photo book I discovered recently in which a pair of geologists recreated images from Powell’s expedition down the colorado river. Referencing the exact position that the original plates had been taken, but brought forward into the modern era (1968).

There does seem to be something a little magical about returning to images that seem so distinctly of the past and recognizing how persistent geography is. The photographers in the Powell book note that other than some stray rock fall and a couple of small dams almost nothing has changed about the major geological features in the preceding 100 years

 

[pbromaghin]

Interesting project. Thank you for the good link.

My dad was on one of the landing craft pictured off Okinawa.

 

[Prest_400]

Interesting work

I was in Philippines last fall and travelled with a Fuji 6x9. I did put some thoughts about this, as got to photograph some WWII sites with a period correct format (not camera). As in her work, I found it strange that such paradisiac places were the scenery of such a bloody conflict.

There does seem to be something a little magical about returning to images that seem so distinctly of the past and recognizing how persistent geography is. The photographers in the Powell book note that other than some stray rock fall and a couple of small dams almost nothing has changed about the major geological features in the preceding 100 years

I interpret it sometimes as a good incentive to photograph what does change much quicker, the antropomorphic.

Not any particular reason but I have a possible itinerary for a trip to Taiwan and Okinawa. Both islands varying from "their mainlands".

 

[John Wiegerink]

My father was stationed in the Pacific during WWII. His home was a Marine anti-aircraft gun emplacement on the Johnston Island, which was used by the Navy as a refueling station for our submarines and had an airstrip. Yes, it's the same Johnston Island (atoll) that we used for atomic test bombs a few years later. As close as I got to Johnston Island was on my trip to Vietnam in the 60's/ I did make it to Okinawa twice, and it was hot and steamy, just like Vietnam was. You'd have never known, even back when I was on Okinawa, that some really nasty things happen to both men and the environment.