Exhibit Of Photo Portraits of WWII Veterans Opens At Virginia War Memorial

From Virginia War Memorial press release:

An exhibit of photo portraits of 14 veterans of World War II originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch will be unveiled on October 5 at the Virginia War Memorial.
The black-and-white photos were taken in July and August by Times-Dispatch photographer Dean Hoffmeyer and published August 15, 2015 in a special section of the newspaper commemorating the 70th Anniversary of V-J (“Victory Over Japan’) Day – the day World War II ended.
The subjects of the portraits, who range in age from 88-96 years, served in various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces – Army, Army Air Corps, Marines and Navy – and in both the European and Pacific Theaters during the war. All are residents of the Richmond and Petersburg metropolitan areas.
Hoffmeyer photographed each veteran individually using a vintage 4×5 format Speed Graphic film camera – the type of camera used by many newspaper photographers in the 1940s- and developed each photo by hand.
“When an original digital image is gone, it is lost forever,” Hoffmeyer said. “I wanted our portraits to be everlasting and real, just as the contributions these men made to our country are everlasting and real.”

The photos will be on display in the American Legion Exhibit Hall in the Virginia War Memorial’s Paul and Phyllis Galanti Education Center at 621 South Belvidere in downtown Richmond through November 30.