Real photo postcards : pictures from a changing nation / Lynda Klich and Benjamin Weiss ; with contributions by Eric Moskowitz, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Annie Rudd, Christropher B. Steiner, and Anna Tome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, author, host institution.

Klich, Lynda, author.

Weiss, Benjamin, author.

Contributor:

Moskowitz, Eric, writer of supplementary textual content.

Rosenheim, Jeff, writer of supplementary textual content.

Rudd, Annie, writer of supplementary textual content.

Steiner, Christopher Burghard, writer of supplementary textual content.

Tome, Anna, writer of supplementary textual content.

Teitelbaum, Matthew, writer of foreword.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Real photo postcards--United States--Exhibitions.

Real photo postcards.

Lauder, Leonard A--Photograph collections--Exhibitions.

Lauder, Leonard A.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston--Exhibitions.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Real photo postcards--Massachusetts--Boston--Exhibitions.

United States--Social conditions--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

United States.

Vernacular photography--United States--Exhibitions.

Vernacular photography.

Portrait photography--United States--Exhibitions.

Portrait photography.

Black-and-white photography--United States--Exhibitions.

Black-and-white photography.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

311 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Pictures from a changing nation

Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2022]

Summary:

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.--OCLC OLUC.

Contents:

(mostly from table of contents) Director's Foreword / Matthew Teitelbaum

Citizen photographers / Leonard A. Lauder

In and out of focus / Benjamin Weiss

Making postcards and (sometimes) making money / Benjamin Weiss

Main street / Sinclair Lewis

Democracy, at work / Jeff L. Rosenheim

When you look at this, think of me / Christopher B. Steiner

Between private and public / Annie Rudd

The news / Eric Moskowitz

Postcards and road trips / Lynda Klich

Simpler times? / Benjamin Weiss

List of illustrations / Anna Tome.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 17-July 25, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 286-289).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Klich, Lynda. Postcards and road trips.

Container of: Weiss, Benjamin. In and out of focus.

ISBN:

9780878468843

0878468846

OCLC:

1319875732