My father, James Brumfield, took up photography in 1938, when at the age of 18 bought his first camera. Around 1947, he started buying Kodachrome film, which had been around since 1935 but he could never afford. He continued to use Kodachrome throughout the 1970s. After he died in 1997, I scanned and filed thousands of 35mm slides shot in Kodachrome, and they looked like the day they were shot. He was strictly an amateur, and was never to my knowledge published, but deserved to be. He just did it for fun.

 

These collections include vacations in 1947 and 1953, as well as models from the Waynesboro, Virginia Skyline camera club in 1956, and shots of him with his wife and my mother, Polly Brumfield.

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All photos © 2020 by Dale M. Brumfield.