{"id":17590,"date":"2014-10-30T03:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T08:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:00:33","slug":"child-of-the-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/30\/child-of-the-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Child of the Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"child-of-the-corn-det\"<\/a>Yes, I know I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of the Children of the Corn<\/em><\/a> joke, but it’s almost Halloween and photographer John Capewell<\/strong> used this field of corn as a backdrop for a number of his photographs.<\/p>\n

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This is one of Capewell’s sons who doesn’t look too enthusiastic about having his image captured on emulsion. He is staying remarkably still for the negative’s long exposure.<\/p>\n

\"child-of-the-corn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

About The Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Capewell Glass Negative<\/strong> Collection<\/strong><\/a> is a series of about 200 5-inch by 7-inch glass negatives shot early in the 20th Century by John Batt Capewell<\/strong> (1878-1951) of Westville, New Jersey.<\/strong> John passed the negatives down to his son Henry who left them in his wife\u2019s possession upon his passing. Henry\u2019s widow didn\u2019t know what to do with them and didn\u2019t particularly want them so she offered them to my Dad who couldn\u2019t turn down anything. Ultimately I wound up with them and thought I would one day have photographic prints struck from them. That didn\u2019t happen, but I came up with the digital workaround of placing the negatives on a lightbox and rephotographing them with a digital camera. The \u201cprocessing\u201d<\/em> was then done on a computer with image editing software. They came out better than I thought they would so I thought I would show them off to the world on this site. Many of these pictures have not been seen in a century, and I\u2019m proud to be presenting them today.<\/p>\n

At first, I did not know who the people were in the photographs. I have a box of ephemera that accompanied the negatives and snagged a few clues from that as far as the Capewell name. I did some research on the internet and had a few false starts and wrong turns, but the readers of these posts have provided a remarkable amount of research and detail. I\u2019m amazed at what people have turned up sifting through public records and such!<\/p>\n

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Yes, I know I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of the Children of the Corn joke, but it’s almost Halloween and photographer John Capewell used this field of corn as a backdrop for a number of his photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1104],"tags":[158,1573,314,3349,1652,1445,1095,3668,5,1106,122,118,3676,480,336,121,3660],"class_list":["post-17590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-analog","tag-antique-photograph","tag-baby","tag-children-of-the-corn","tag-corn","tag-early-20th-century","tag-glass-negative","tag-halloween","tag-joe-williams","tag-john-b-capewell","tag-new-jersey","tag-photography","tag-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-westville","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4zI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9968,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/04\/with-the-kids-among-the-corn\/","url_meta":{"origin":17590,"position":0},"title":"With the Kids Among the Corn","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, it was the boys in front of the corn. 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