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Real Photo Postcards [electronic resource] :Unbelievable Images from the Collection of Harvey Tulcensky / edited by Laetitia Wolff.

by Wolff, Laetitia [editor.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.Description: 207 p. online resource.ISBN: 9781568986654.Subject(s): Humanities | Arts | Humanities / Arts | ArtsDDC classification: 700 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
And We Lived Where Dusk Had Meaning -- Parading -- At Work -- Romance -- Night & Day -- Portraits -- Motion & Machines -- Geometries -- Catch & Kill -- Harvest -- Uncanny -- Main Street -- Amusements -- Disasters -- Home Sweet Home -- Interview with Harvey Tulcensky.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: It may be hard to believe, but there actually was a time when the postcard image was not a cliché. To reach it, you'll have to set your clock back to the end of the nineteenth century, when an Act of Congress allowed Americans to mail a card for just one cent. A few years later, Kodak introduced an easy-to-use and affordable folding camera that put postcard power into the hands of ordinary citizens, setting off a craze. Real Photo Postcards is a collection of the most outlandish and idiosyncratic, beautiful and even occasionally bizarre images of this early postcard period. Painstakingly assembled from the collection of Harvey Tulcensky, one of the world's most avid collectors of these original postcards, Real Photo Postcards includes images of natural phenomena (floods, storms, fires), Main Street America, rural life, political parades, and wacky "exaggeration" cards (such as a photographically manipulated giant rabbit!). Together these cards show an oddly personal and intimate perspective of America at the turn of the 20th century.
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And We Lived Where Dusk Had Meaning -- Parading -- At Work -- Romance -- Night & Day -- Portraits -- Motion & Machines -- Geometries -- Catch & Kill -- Harvest -- Uncanny -- Main Street -- Amusements -- Disasters -- Home Sweet Home -- Interview with Harvey Tulcensky.

It may be hard to believe, but there actually was a time when the postcard image was not a cliché. To reach it, you'll have to set your clock back to the end of the nineteenth century, when an Act of Congress allowed Americans to mail a card for just one cent. A few years later, Kodak introduced an easy-to-use and affordable folding camera that put postcard power into the hands of ordinary citizens, setting off a craze. Real Photo Postcards is a collection of the most outlandish and idiosyncratic, beautiful and even occasionally bizarre images of this early postcard period. Painstakingly assembled from the collection of Harvey Tulcensky, one of the world's most avid collectors of these original postcards, Real Photo Postcards includes images of natural phenomena (floods, storms, fires), Main Street America, rural life, political parades, and wacky "exaggeration" cards (such as a photographically manipulated giant rabbit!). Together these cards show an oddly personal and intimate perspective of America at the turn of the 20th century.

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