Erik Petersen

June 2, 2005 7:02 PM

Erik Petersen. Danish newspaper photographer. Died in 1997. He took a number of pictures around WWII. He never developed them. Fortunately, sixty years later, someone else has. Now they can be found in a book. Here's a bit of bloggery as well.
posted by IndigoJones (14 comments total)

This is awesome.
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:09 PM on June 2, 2005

WWII, the good times.
posted by stbalbach at 7:19 PM on June 2, 2005

If anybody wants a translation of the comments to one of the pictures, just say so.
posted by cx at 7:50 PM on June 2, 2005

Very cool. I find some of these inspiring.
posted by mmahaffie at 7:53 PM on June 2, 2005

Very Cool! Thanks, Indy!
posted by shoepal at 8:59 PM on June 2, 2005

I liked these kids' ability to still imagine fun.
posted by schyler523 at 9:15 PM on June 2, 2005

joy
posted by marvin at 10:20 PM on June 2, 2005

These are fascinating, thanks IndigoJones. This one in particular caught my eye.
posted by misteraitch at 11:13 PM on June 2, 2005

The important thing to see here, I think, is the grand old time these guys were having as the archetypical evil empire was already on the march.
posted by kaibutsu at 11:52 PM on June 2, 2005

Easily as good as Boubat, Brassai etc.
posted by fire&wings at 8:34 AM on June 3, 2005

[this is good]
posted by Rumple at 10:02 AM on June 3, 2005

Thanks, IndigoJones! Misteraitch, I was going to comment on that one (I'd love to be able to have it blown up and framed), and I was also particularly struck by this one.
posted by kimota at 11:20 AM on June 3, 2005

kimota-

Write to the web site. You never know. The most amazing people will say yes when asked. And good luck.
posted by IndigoJones at 4:49 PM on June 3, 2005

This is terrific. Thanks, IndigoJones.
posted by sellout at 4:59 PM on June 3, 2005