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After many successful months in the northwest, Kronquist hied himself south on a well-earned vacation and honeymoon, and almost before he had begun to give serious thought to establishing new business connections, found himself heading his own, unique pictorial department at Douglas. Here, however, the fame of his skill in making dramatic camera portraits of aircraft had gone before him. and he was engaged primarily as a photographer. Lens and shutter had won — permanently, at appears — over brush and palette!
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Here in the world’s largest plane factory, Kronquist’s camera activities are many and varied. To put it briefly. he does about everything except make the engineering and record photos which the other two Douglas photo departments attend to with great efficiency. His camera’s primary assignment is to produce the arrestingly dramatic shots of Douglas ships on the ground and in the air that lend eyeappeal to the firm’s advertising and publicity. Enlargements of these pictures— of salon-print quality — have found honored places on the walls of the offices and homes of important airline executives, civic and military executives, politicians, statesmen and rulers in almost every country on earth. The late King Feisal of Iraq, President Roosevelt, and the aerial warlords of Britain, France, and Norway are among the many who have praised Kronquist’s pictorial way with ’planes. In between-times, he makes portraits of the Douglas executives, many of whom — like so many busy men — are either camera-shy or too busy to bother with having their pic
tures taken. It’s no easy assignment — but Kronquist gets bis man, and makes him not only like it, but the resulting picture as well.
Another unique phase of Farry Kronquist’s work is his pioneering in the production and use of photomurals for decorating the cabins of de luxe airliners and private aircraft. “There’s more to this than you might think,” he tells you. “In an ordinary photo-mural, assuming, of course, that you have a good negative and can turn out an extra-good and extralarge enlargement, you simply mount the picture on the wall, and your job’s done.
Flying Photo-murals “But putting a pboto-mural in an airplane cabin is another matter entirely. To begin with, your airplane cabin’s walls usually have more or less irregular shapes. That means you’ve got to plan the composition of your pictures to fit those shapes — especially the upper-corner taper as the fuselage section narrows the wall in with a sweeping inward curve.
“What’s more, your mural has to be mounted really flat against the wall. A little air-bubble which would be inconsequential in an ordinary mural, is fatal in a flying one. That
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