Real Photo Postcards
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Author: Klich, Lynda
This book captures the impact of postcard cameras on the history of communications from 1900 to 1930 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 that are dramatic, humorous, puzzling and surprising. 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. But it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1903, unveiled a new postcard camera that produced a postcard-size negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone, amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike, could take a picture – of neighbours at home and at work, local celebrations, newsworthy disasters, sightseeing trips – and turn it into a postcard.
ISBN 9780878468843. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 304 pages. 340 colour ills. 24 x 22 cm.
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This book captures the impact of postcard cameras on the history of communications from 1900 to 1930 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 that are dramatic, humorous, puzzling and surprising. 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. But it was revolutionary when the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1903, unveiled a new postcard camera that produced a postcard-size negative that could print directly onto a blank card. Suddenly almost anyone, amateurs and entrepreneurial photographers alike, could take a picture – of neighbours at home and at work, local celebrations, newsworthy disasters, sightseeing trips – and turn it into a postcard.
ISBN 9780878468843. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 304 pages. 340 colour ills. 24 x 22 cm.
available