Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, author, host institution

Publication

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

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Klich, Lynda
• Weiss, Benjamin
• Moskowitz, Eric
• Rosenheim, Jeff
• Rudd, Annie
• Steiner, Christopher Burghard
• Tome, Anna
• Teitelbaum, Matthew
• Klich, Lynda
• Weiss, Benjamin

Description

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

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.

Alternative Title

• Pictures from a changing nation
• Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive

Subject

• Lauder, Leonard A. > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Lauder, Leonard A
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston > Exhibitions
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Real photo postcards > United States > Exhibitions
• Real photo postcards > Massachusetts > Boston > Exhibitions
• Vernacular photography > United States > Exhibitions
• Portrait photography > United States > Exhibitions
• Black-and-white photography > United States > Exhibitions
• Black-and-white photography
• Photograph collections
• Portrait photography
• Real photo postcards
• Social conditions
• Vernacular photography
• United States > Social conditions > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Massachusetts > Boston
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition, pictorial works.

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JQE 22-929

ISBN

• 9780878468843
• 0878468846

LCCN

2021950900

OCLC

1319875732

Author

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

Title

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.

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Klich, Lynda, author.

Weiss, Benjamin, author.

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.

Container of (work): Klich, Lynda. Postcards and road trips.

Container of (work): Weiss, Benjamin. In and out of focus.

Research Call Number

JQE 22-929