Fragment d'arme japonaise, 1942 Studio de Time-Life, vers 1985 Épreuve argentique, 280x282 mm, tamponnée, Get the Picture, page 59 John Holding Japanese Shell Fragment, 1942 Printed in Time Life Studio NYC, ca 1985 Gelatin silver print, 280x282 mm, artist credit, date, wetstamp, published in John G. Morris, Get the Picture, A Personal History of Photojournalism, page 59 One night in February 1942, sirens sounded in Los Angeles. It turned out that a Japanese submarine had fired a round of shells at an oil storage depot near Santa Barbara. A blackout was ordered for the entire California coast but I drove to Santa Barbara with my parking lights and staff photographer Eliot Elisofon At dawn, I borrowed this shell fragment from a sentry for $5. It made the lead page in the next week's Life over the headline: "Japanese Carry War to California Coast."
Fragment d'arme japonaise, 1942 Studio de Time-Life, vers 1985 Épreuve argentique, 280x282 mm, tamponnée, Get the Picture, page 59 John Holding Japanese Shell Fragment, 1942 Printed in Time Life Studio NYC, ca 1985 Gelatin silver print, 280x282 mm, artist credit, date, wetstamp, published in John G. Morris, Get the Picture, A Personal History of Photojournalism, page 59 One night in February 1942, sirens sounded in Los Angeles. It turned out that a Japanese submarine had fired a round of shells at an oil storage depot near Santa Barbara. A blackout was ordered for the entire California coast but I drove to Santa Barbara with my parking lights and staff photographer Eliot Elisofon At dawn, I borrowed this shell fragment from a sentry for $5. It made the lead page in the next week's Life over the headline: "Japanese Carry War to California Coast."
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