THEODORA KROEBER
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"Theodora Kroeber"                                      Photographed by g. Paul Bishop, '59
 No. 2                                                                       ©2019 G. Paul Bishop, Jr.

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Theodora Kroeber
(Theodora Kracaw Kroeber)
1897 - 1979

Writer
Anthropologist


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The first time I photographed Theodora was when she published her first book, The Inland Whale. Another photo, from the same photo session, was later used for the publication of Ishi. I was under the assumption that she had come to my studio because I had done a prior photograph of her husband, Professor Alfred Kroeber, In actuality, it turned out, she was not aware of the existence of that picture. So I don't know for sure how she happened to single me out. I very often ask people this question, but I didn't in her case.

She came at a very interesting time in my own history. I had started out my portrait photography using the 8X10 view camera with a dark cloth over my head and so on. By 1950, I had gone down to the 5X7. The cost of 8X10 film had gone up so high that I had to economize and found the process worked quite well in 5X7. Within the session I could take six exposures. Compared to the film cost of what I use now, that was quite a thing. In those days, before we had strobes very well worked out, i would use flash bulbs. In between each exposure I would unscrew the hot flashbulb and put another one in. I used two different lights, therefore two bulbs. It was really quite an expensive operation.

g. Paul Bishop
 

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