{"id":17955,"date":"2014-12-30T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17955"},"modified":"2014-12-30T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:35:46","slug":"school-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/12\/30\/school-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"School is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Westville<\/a><\/p>\n

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. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives and make the prints. I don\u2019t recall what the particulars of the class assignments were although I can tell from looking at the negatives which were the assignments and which ones were shot just to finish off a roll. The shots to finish the roll are a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n

While my fellow students mostly resided and shot their photographs in Philadelphia, I lived and did most of my shooting in and around Westville, NJ. Above is the shuttered Westville School. I think I went here briefly when I was attending either kindergarten or grade school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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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