LYNDA KLICH is Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History and Macaulay Honors College, Hunter College, CUNY, and curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection. BENJAMIN WEISS IS Leonard A. Lauder Senior Curator of Visual Culture, Department of Prints and Drawings, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Real Photo Postcards. Pictures from a Changing Nation
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- Nombre de pages311
- FormatBeau Livre
- PrésentationRelié
- Poids1.5 kg
- Dimensions22,5 cm × 25,0 cm × 3,5 cm
- ISBN978-0-87846-884-3
- EAN9780878468843
- Date de parution02/05/2022
- ÉditeurMuseum of Fine Arts Boston
Résumé
The ubiquity of photography and social media today makes it hard to imagine a time when it was not possible for ordinary people to take their own pictures and send them with short messages over long distances. So it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1903, unveiled a new camera that produced a postcard-sized negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone, amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike, could take a picture - of neighbors at home and at work, local celebrations, newsworthy disasters, sightseeing trips - and turn it into a postcard.
This book captures this moment in the history of communications through a generous selection of what came to be known as real photo postcards from the extensive Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive. As the formality of earlier photography falls away, these postcards remind us that the past was occupied by people with distinct and individual stories, dramatic, humorous, puzzling, and surprising.
This book captures this moment in the history of communications through a generous selection of what came to be known as real photo postcards from the extensive Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive. As the formality of earlier photography falls away, these postcards remind us that the past was occupied by people with distinct and individual stories, dramatic, humorous, puzzling, and surprising.