Tag Archives: 1980s

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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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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Holiday Fatigue

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Somewhere at the end of the ’80s I started dating a girl just after the holidays. I sketched out this little cartoon combining Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Easter for her as a gag greeting card.

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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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Looking West from Broad and Spruce

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Looking out the back or West side of the Atlantic Building which was known as Anderson Hall at the time and housed the Philadelphia College of Art.

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Above Broad & Spruce in 1983

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This is a photograph I shot from what was once Anderson Hall on the Northwest corner of Broad and Spruce which once housed The Philadelphia College of Art. This is probably the 7th floor where the illustration majors were situated. … Continue reading →

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