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Folk Photography

Author : Luc Sante
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241559
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Folk Photography written by Luc Sante and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating analysis of the real-photo postcard phenomenon of the early 1900s. These cards depict the now vanished world of small-town America, but also represent a pivotal stage in the evolution of photography. Their head-on style inherits something of the plain aesthetic of the Civil War photographers, while anticipating the great 1930s documentary artists such as Walker Evans. Fusing his skills as a chronicler of early 20th-century America, a historian of photography and a keen critic, Sante shows how these postcards offer a revealing 'self-portrait of the American nation'.

Real Photo Postcard Guide

Author : Robert Bogdan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815608516
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Real Photo Postcard Guide written by Robert Bogdan and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Photo Postcard Guide is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the photo postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the scope of the Real Photo Postcard Guide spans technical considerations of production, characteristics of superior images, collecting categories, and methods of research for dating photo postcards and investigating their photographers. In a broader sense, the authors show how "real photo postcards" document the social history of America. From family outings and workplace awards to lynchings and natural disasters, every image captures a moment of American cultural history from the society that generated them. Bogdan and Weseloh’s book provides an admirable integration of informative text and compelling photographic illustrations. Collectors, archivists, photographers, photo historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in the visual documentation of America will find the Real Photo Postcard Guide indispensable.

Real Photo Postcards

Author : Laetitia Wolff
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985565
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Real Photo Postcards written by Laetitia Wolff and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Carefully assembled from the collection of Harvey Tulcensky and including cards from all over the world, Real Photo Postcards consists of images of natural phenomena (floods, storms, fires), rural life, politics (parades and platforms), science, art (beautiful still lifes and collages), and wacky "exaggeration" cards (including a photographically manipulated giant rabbit!). Together these cards show an oddly personal and intimate perspective of the world at the turn of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Rural Delivery

Author : Jody Blake
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271016252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Rural Delivery written by Jody Blake and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Many years ago, Foster E. Weaver, a close friend of mine, discovered a postcard album among his aunt's personal items. Fascinated by the variety of cards and the messages written on them by both family and friends, he kept the album. Ultimately, his discovery led him into the adventurous world of collecting.'-----Gary W. Slear, Past President Of The Union County Historical Society And Chairman Of The UCHS Archives And Museum Committee, also the author of the Foreward of this book Rural Delivery.

Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918

Author : George Miller
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picture Postcards in the United States, 1893-1918 written by George Miller and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Postcards

Author : Martin Willoughby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A History of Postcards written by Martin Willoughby and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

As We Were

Author : Rosamond B. Vaule
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922509
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis As We Were by : Rosamond B. Vaule

Download or read book As We Were written by Rosamond B. Vaule and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, no one seriously doubts the value, both aesthetic and historic, of the ubiquitous American photographic postcard. This was the medium that really brought photography to the masses; these cards were affordable, they were topical, and they could be sent for a penny anywhere in the country. The variety of imagery, much of it developed anonymously in small studios, much of it taken by inspired amateurs (these were the days when anyone could, and many folks did, own a camera) displays America in all its variety and vitality. Most postcards were mass produced and printed in ink by the collotype or halftone process. But a few were original photographic prints, exposed directly from glass plates or film negatives. Known as real photos these were real photographs, aristocrats of the genre and spectacular examples of vernacular photography. In this charming and scholarly book, Vaule selects the best of them, from all over the country, addressing their social and historical contexts, explaining the mysteries of their manufacture and dissemination, and describing the characteristics and identities of their makers, many of whose names and studios are listed in the book. But without doubt, it is the images themselves that still hold us: storefronts and townships, frisky children and sober adults, air ships and barn raisings. Over one hundred are reproduced here, each in fine-line duotone, each as fascinating and compelling today as when first fixed on paper.

Real Photo Postcards

Author : Lynda Klich
Publisher : MFA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780878468843
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Real Photo Postcards written by Lynda Klich and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards of a nation embracing a new democratic technology 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 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--from around 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, dramatic, humorous, puzzling and surprising.

Beauty and the Beast

Author : Arnold Arluke
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650914
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Arnold Arluke and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo postcards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to compelling document their subject.

Large Letter Postcards

Author : Fred Tenney
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764333118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Large Letter Postcards written by Fred Tenney and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will serve generations to come as the definitive book on buying and collecting the beautiful, 1930s to 1950s era large letter linen postcards. Over 2,300 large letter postcards are documented, with a carefully researched value for each card. This will assist dealers to fairly price their postcards and protect the collector from overpaying. There is a detailed history of the postcards and information about the designers and manufacturers. Graphic artists will find inspiration for new approaches to art and advertising. A wide assortment of colorful cards was selected to be shown big, making this a wonderful coffee table book, with crossover appeal in collecting, advertising, graphic design, historical research, and arts and crafts.

Prairie Fires and Paper Moons

Author : Hal Morgan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Fires and Paper Moons written by Hal Morgan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1981 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postcards from the Baja California Border

Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542554
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards from the Baja California Border uses popular historical imagery--the vintage postcard--to tell a compelling, visually enriched geographical story about the border towns of Baja California.

Taming the Land

Author : John Miller Morris
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603440372
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Land written by John Miller Morris and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.

Postcards

Author : David Prochaska
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Postcards written by David Prochaska and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.

A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards

Author : Bowers David Q Martin Mary
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794847371
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards written by Bowers David Q Martin Mary and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide Book of Collectible Postcards "takes you on a unique trip into the past. Inside this book, you'll find cards of high society and lowbrow humor, natural disasters, social, political, and religious movements, popular artists' illustrations, newspaper comics, circus animals, early movie stars, athletes, planes, trains, automobiles, and the corner general store--and much more! Authors Q. David Bowers and Mary L. Martin share decades of experience in buying, selling, and collecting. They guide you from the earliest postcards of the 1870s to the Golden Age of the 1890s through the Great War, and to the modern chrome postcards found on store racks today."--Publishers website.

Postcard America

Author : Jeffrey L. Meikle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292726619
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Postcard America written by Jeffrey L. Meikle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images, often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.

A Garrard County Tragedy

Author : Phyllis Brown
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 9781588510587
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book A Garrard County Tragedy written by Phyllis Brown and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why did Pa have to die?" What Pa was involved in had been handed down from generation to generation. The Hill's and the Evans' had fought over land and squabbled over money for years - taking each other to court, putting up unseen boundaries on land to keep each other out. Mary Hill didn't understand everything about the feud. She knew that Uncle Jesse was shot and killed two years ago, but was really too young to grasp what had happened. So young, and so familiar with sorrow, Mary struggles to keep her family together in the midst of a bitter and violent feud. Just fifteen years old, she is thrust into the role of mother to her twelve siblings, fearful that, with the coming of each new day, a new tragedy will strike. By escaping Garrard County, Mary may be able to save her family from further bloodshed, but can she get them all out in time?