{"id":17568,"date":"2014-10-28T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2014-10-28T05:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:28:55","slug":"the-photo-elective-gloucester-city-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/28\/the-photo-elective-gloucester-city-nj\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photo Elective &#8211; Gloucester City, NJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Gloucester - 1982 by Tina &amp; Joe, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/15460060879\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3935\/15460060879_5f49cd6865_z.jpg?resize=640%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gloucester - 1982\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a>Back when I was majoring in illustration at the art school formerly known as <em><strong>The Philadelphia College of Art<\/strong><\/em>, we were required to take a photography elective. We shot black and white film; developed the negatives and made prints. The assignments were fairly tedious, but not as tedious as the faux art and ironic juxtapositions that naive art students figured were expected in a big city art school. What&#8217;s more interesting are the shots I made just to finish out a roll of film. That&#8217;s what I was doing here. I was on my way to school on a NJ Transit bus and killing off a roll of <em>Pan-X.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was majoring in illustration at the art school formerly known as The Philadelphia College of Art, we were required to take a photography elective. We shot black and white film; developed the negatives and made prints. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/28\/the-photo-elective-gloucester-city-nj\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3340],"tags":[148,158,130,155,988,1314,78,3341,3342],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-photo-elective","tag-148","tag-analog","tag-art-school","tag-bar","tag-black-and-white","tag-broadway","tag-bus","tag-gloucester","tag-walt-whitman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4zm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17860,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/12\/08\/the-photo-elective-the-broadway-deli\/","url_meta":{"origin":17568,"position":0},"title":"The Photo Elective &#8211; The Broadway Deli","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a course in photography. 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