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Special Agent: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 12:05pm.
May 1943. Chicago. "Special agent making his rounds at night at the South Water Street freight terminal of the Illinois Central Railroad." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Shorpy RR
Submitted by Kelpie on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 7:13am.
Really like the Shorpy watermark on the box car.
Detective Story
Submitted by Micaela on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 6:41am.
The agent's silhouette could very well be the logo of a detective story series, it's such a suggestive image! Wonderful image!
Channeling Shorpy
Submitted by Baxado on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 6:22am.
He would have loved this tribute, God rest his soul. Great choice of type by the way. Nicely done
Long time exposure plus flash
Submitted by dwig on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 6:56pm.
I do believe that this, in a way, is a self portrait. At least, in the style of the Renaissance painters who would include a likeness of themselves as one of the background crowd.
Based on the two bright streaks in the sky, likely planets rather than stars, this appears to be a rather long exposure as would be necessary to get a decent exposure of the buildings while using a moderately small aperture to get adequate depth of field. At some point during the exposure the person in the lower right (Delano probably) manually triggered a flash, lighting the rail cars and leaving themselves as a silhouette. Great technique (except the slight bump to the camera seen as a wiggle in the trails of the planets.
[The caption identifies the person in the lower right. It isn't Delano. -tterrace]
nice job
Submitted by damspot on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 3:50pm.
Great job of placing the "Shorpy" in this photo. I'd bet Mr. Delano would've had a chuckle over of it like I did.
You guys can be slick
Submitted by Olde Buck on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 12:49pm.
...by putting your "Shorpy" logo on that IC reefer in a nearly-matching font.
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