{"id":20797,"date":"2016-06-25T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20797"},"modified":"2016-06-25T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T16:37:31","slug":"potemkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/06\/25\/potemkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Potemkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Potemkin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/27621022550\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7392\/27621022550_623ec9b466_z.jpg?resize=640%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Potemkin\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s always the case &#8212; I was looking for something else and I uncovered another treasure. This time I found a stash of <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-photo-elective\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tina Garceau&#8217;s<\/em><\/a> 35mm photo negatives from the <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-photo-elective\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Photo Elective<\/em><\/a> course all illustration majors were required to take at The Philadelphia College of Art.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I was going to hold off posting these until next week, but I was struck with some of the images and couldn&#8217;t wait. I also wanted to post some of Tina&#8217;s self-portraits before she vetoed them. So here is a shot of the <em>beautiful Miss G<\/em> in a frame that looks like it was taken from Sergei Eisenstein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battleship_Potemkin\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Potemkin.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always the case &#8212; I was looking for something else and I uncovered another treasure. This time I found a stash of Tina Garceau&#8217;s 35mm photo negatives from the Photo Elective course all illustration majors were required to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/06\/25\/potemkin\/\">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":[33,158,354,3669,6,336],"class_list":["post-20797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-analog","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-tina-garceau","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-potemkin","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18008,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/broad-chestnut-%e2%80%a2-the-photo-elective\/","url_meta":{"origin":20797,"position":0},"title":"Broad &#038; Chestnut \u2022 The Photo Elective","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. As I've said before, all sophomore students majoring in illustration at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take a minor course in photography where the students would take and process black and white, 35mm images. 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