Blackie the Photographer:
Okinawa in Photo's, Marceline, Missouri, Walsworth, 8vo (8 1/4 x 10 1/2), pictorial wraps, ca 1962, 106 photographs reproduced in black and white halftone, 64 pp. The book does not have a title page or credit the photographer. However, many of the images can be traced to books where Blackie Bradford is credited as the photographer. Blackie's signature image of Okinawa ("Papasan's Day is Done") appears in a full page photograph. The book has a total of 106 photographs. Of this total, 28 are full page and the balance are smaller. The bulk of the book (87 images, 56 pages) deals with Okinawa. The last 8 pages have 19 images of Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan. This book (less the soft covers) was encorporated into The Dream of Hatsue which was published ca 1967.

Dating the Book. The lack of a title page or colophon make dating the book difficult. The cover photograph (ariel view of Okinawa) is a variant of the cover photograph found on Blackie's book Okinawa Children in Photos. For more information on that book click here. That book was published ca 1962 and I am therefore dating this book as from the same period.

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