Handling oil drums.
11x14 Lifetime archival ink jet print. Printed under the supervision of Wayne F. Miller, 2008.
Handling oil drums at the Naval Supply Depot, Guam. 1944.
Miller was a member of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, under the command of Captain Edward Steichen. In 1944 and 1945, he created a photographic series about a segregated all-black unit that was assigned to the Naval Supply Depot on Guam. The men called their unit “Pot Luck”. One of the men told Miller “Pot luck is a good name for our outfit. We come from all over the United States and are mixed together in the labor camp.“
Appears in Wayne F. Miller Photographs 1942-1958 published by powerHouse Books, 2008.
11x14 Lifetime archival ink jet print. Printed under the supervision of Wayne F. Miller, 2008.
Handling oil drums at the Naval Supply Depot, Guam. 1944.
Miller was a member of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, under the command of Captain Edward Steichen. In 1944 and 1945, he created a photographic series about a segregated all-black unit that was assigned to the Naval Supply Depot on Guam. The men called their unit “Pot Luck”. One of the men told Miller “Pot luck is a good name for our outfit. We come from all over the United States and are mixed together in the labor camp.“
Appears in Wayne F. Miller Photographs 1942-1958 published by powerHouse Books, 2008.
11x14 Lifetime archival ink jet print. Printed under the supervision of Wayne F. Miller, 2008.
Handling oil drums at the Naval Supply Depot, Guam. 1944.
Miller was a member of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, under the command of Captain Edward Steichen. In 1944 and 1945, he created a photographic series about a segregated all-black unit that was assigned to the Naval Supply Depot on Guam. The men called their unit “Pot Luck”. One of the men told Miller “Pot luck is a good name for our outfit. We come from all over the United States and are mixed together in the labor camp.“
Appears in Wayne F. Miller Photographs 1942-1958 published by powerHouse Books, 2008.