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PCA – The Class of ’68 – Motion Picture

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Joe_Williams

A few weeks ago, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater’s past — The Philadelphia College of Art’s yearbook from 1968!This collection of film makers had special significance to me because I recognized one of the graduates … Continue reading →

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Friday Five – Number Sixty Nine

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Tina Garceau

Sixty ninth in a series creating a collage using five elements.

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Blue Baby

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Joe_Williams

This looks to be a photograph of John B. Capewell’s eldest son, John, Jr. The negative is a little worst for wear, and it had turned a yellow brown which when inverted in Photoshop, turns an interesting blue.

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Friday Five – Number Sixty-Eight

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Tina Garceau

Sixty eighth in a series creating a collage using five elements.

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Happy Birthday, Tina!

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Joe_Williams

Here is this year’s birthday card for Tina. I decided to ape her Friday Five fashion with this one.

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On the Rocks

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another of John Capewell’s glass negatives that I thought I had previously published, but I guess I haven’t. It looks to be John’s brother James George Capewell perched upon the rocks up at what I assume is Niagara Falls.

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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another in a series of photographs that John Capewell shot of his children with the familiar lodgepole chair, a curtain of corn as a background and the family pet. This appears to be Capewell’s son John, Jr.

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Chicks Will Dig You!

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Joe_Williams

Is it the mod haircut, the happening turtleneck or the aloof attitude?

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Lady on the Path

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Joe_Williams

I’m not sure where this was shot, but it looks like John Capewell’s wife Ella is the subject, and from the manner of her dress, I would guess it is very early in the twentieth century.

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