Category Archives: The Photo Elective

One Touch Colorization

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Joe

A new set of features in the recently updated Photoshop make it unbelievably easy to cheat by making the painstaking process of colorizing photos into a one button process!

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The Fifth Beatle

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Joe_Williams

This is another of The Photo Elective series of photographs that Tina, I and every other illustration major attending The Philadelphia College of Art were required to shoot, process and print. This is a self-portrait of Ms Garceau.

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Gaiety Sandwich Shop — an Update

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Joe_Williams

People constantly scour the Internet seeking the newest of the new. What I love about the Internet is that it is also a nearly infinite backlog of information. There is something for everyone, and something that may have been posted … Continue reading →

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A Long Time Ago About 4 Hours Away…

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Joe_Williams

This is another of The Photo Elective series of photographs that Tina, I and every other illustration major attending The Philadelphia College of Art were required to shoot, process and print. My guess is that the notion of the class … Continue reading →

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Sam Eric Theater

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This isn’t really part of The Photo Elective series in that it wasn’t part of that elective course that all illustration majors at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take, but I did use the same SLR camera … Continue reading →

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She’ll Be Back

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Joe

Here’s another of Tina Garceau’s Photo Elective self-portraits that I recently discovered. They were taken as part of a class assignment at The Philadelphia College of Art. Fortunately I found them because I think a stubborn humility would have prevented … Continue reading →

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Diabolique

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another self-portrait that Tina Garceau shot as part of a Photo Elective project back when she attended the Philadelphia College of Art. This one is not as successful as some of her recent photographs I posted, but you have … Continue reading →

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All That Jazz

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Photo Elective self-portrait of Tina Garceau. I think I may have taken a few weak, tentative, overly self-conscious shots of myself, but it appears that my darling bride really jumped into the spirit of the assignment with costumes … Continue reading →

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Eric’s Mark I

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Eric’s Mark I movie theater as it was at 18th and Market in Philadelphia, PA circa 1983. I was a student at The Philadelphia College of Art, and I was snapping frames of 35mm film as reference for a class … Continue reading →

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Femme Fatale

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This is another of Tina Garceau’s shots from a photography elective that all illustration majors were required to take at The Philadelphia College of Art.

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Potemkin

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Joe_Williams

It’s always the case — I was looking for something else and I uncovered another treasure. This time I found a stash of Tina Garceau’s 35mm photo negatives from the Photo Elective course all illustration majors were required to take … Continue reading →

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Gift wrap a bottle of Cutty

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Another photo of the Southeast corner of Broad and Spruce Streets shot from the building on the Northwest corner of that same intersection. The last one I posted here was in color and shot about a year after this one.

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Heading Toward 15th & Locust

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Tina Garceau behind the lens again on the streets of Philadelphia some time in the very early ’80s.

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Walking Up 15th

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Tina Garceau was one of many illustration majors at The Philadelphia College of Art forced to required to take an elective course in photography. She and an army of other art students scoured the streets of The City of Brotherly … Continue reading →

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15th & Locust Newsstand

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Photo Elective shot committed to a frame of Pan-X film by the incomparable Tina Garceau. This was a busy newsstand at the corner of 15th and Locust Streets in Center City Philadelphia back when newsprint was one of … Continue reading →

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