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The Cat's Pajamas: 1940
April 1940. A hotel room in Dubuque is the setting for this untitled self-portrait of photographer John Vachon. Medium format acetate negative. View full size.
It IS a phone charger
And that's a vape pen on the stack of books.
Feeling foggy in Dubuque
In a letter to his wife on April 18, 1940, Vachon complained, "Changing film is a difficult problem, no closets, no light proof toilets. Fear I fogged some under the bed clothes this afternoon."
Source: John Vachon's America, Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War (Edited, with Introductory Texts, by Miles Orvell)
Photographer for hire
Hotel rooms a specialty.
Awake?
So that’s what photographers do when they sleep-walk.
Phone Charger?
My vote is for timed shutter release, or similar contraption.
Not a phone charger for sure.
Could it be what attaches to the flash from the camera?
I want a big one
That suitcase is worthy of George Bailey, when he dreamed of hopping aboard a tramp steamer and seeing the world.
Phone charger?
How about a light meter?
[On the right, yes, but the cord in question is over on the left. - Dave]
One Heck of a Suitcase
Looks like he doesn't believe in traveling light, and we don't even see his photo gear.
re: Cell Phone Charger
It's a little difficult to tell because it's out of the picture's depth of field, but my guess is that the wire shaped contraption on the dresser is a shutter bulb, or at least part of one.
Cell Phone Charger
It's not, but then again, what is it?
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