::: ataricharm ::: has added a photo to the pool:
The idea for this photo series started with a photo Brynna posted back in December. www.flickr.com/photos/12050385@N05/2147100166/. I thought the Cub Scout shirt was a great styling idea for some pin-up images, and we started collaborating.
We had started collaborating on some ideas for a shoot, and knew we wanted to shoot images with pinup styling. Then, in the first week of January, the Library of Congress started posting a stream of color images from the 30’s and 40’s. It’s a wonderful collection, and if you haven’t seen it already, you owe it to yourself to check it out (http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/collections/72157601355524315/). Anyway, as soon as I saw this stream, and that there are no known copyright restrictions on the images, I thought it would be a fun photo project to echo Brynna’s orginal idea, but really trying to blend her into some of these vintage images. Hence the “NOW and THEN” titling of these images.
The original image used for this composite shot, was shot by Howard Hollem and published in 1942, and is called “Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her Husband is a Flight Instructor”. It can be seen here:
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