"At Ease"
Frank Errigo (b. 1920)
"At
Ease." Camp Pendleton, California
Original on 4x5 format Kodachrome film, 1943
Ilfochrome print made October 2002
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of The Errigo Archive, LLC (243.4)
[ Digital ID# ppmsca-05606 ]
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New technologies can provide compelling prints of World War II
color photographs. As a sergeant in the Army Signal Corps, Frank
Errigo produced this image for military recruiting and training
purposes. He obtained copyright to the Kodachromes not retained
by the military and published them during the war in nearly sixty
magazines and the color supplements of Sunday newspapers including
The New York Herald Tribune, The Philadelphia
Inquirer, and The
Chicago Daily Tribune. Here Errigo posed two actors as soldiers
in a bomb storage facility at Camp Pendleton, California, admiring
a portrait of a young woman while a pinup of Susan Hayward hangs
nearby.
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