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Folk Photography - The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930 (Paperback)
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The postcard craze that swept the United States in the early 20th
century coincided with the spread of pocket cameras and led to the
phenomenon of real-photo postcards, so called because they were
mostly made by small-town amateur and professional photographers
and printed in their darkrooms, usually in quantities of less than
a hundred (unlike the contemporary mass-produced photolithographs).
Real-photo postcards were typically produced in small, often
isolated towns whose citizens felt an urgent need to communicate
with distant friends. The cards document everything about their
time and place, from intimate matters to events that qualified as
news. They depict people from every station of life engaged in the
panorama of human activities -- eating, sleeping, labor, worship,
animal husbandry, amateur theatrics, barn raising, spirit rapping,
dissolution, riot, disaster, death. The phenomenon began in 1905
and peaked in the 1910s, when many millions of real-photo postcards
were mailed each year. Previous books have been content to display
these cards for their socio-historical or nostalgia value; this
book goes much further. The 122 postcards it reproduces cover the
entire field of the cards' subject matter, but Luc Sante
illuminates them with the penetrating, stimulating analysis
expected from a writer hailed as "a singular historian and
philosopher of American experience." Sante wants us to see the
images not simply as depictions of a vanished way of life, but as a
crucial stage in the evolution of photography, possessing a blunt,
head-on style that inherits something of the Civil War
photographers' plain aesthetic yet also anticipates the work of
Walker Evans and other great documentary artists of the 1930s.
Combining all his gifts as a chronicler of early 20th-century
America, a historian of photography, and a brilliant critic, Sante
shows how real-photo postcards offer a revealing "self-portrait of
the American nation."
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