Research Catalog

Title

The stamp of fantasy : the visual inventiveness of photographic postcards : from the collections of postcards of Gérard Lévy, Peter Weiss / Clément Chéroux, Ute Eskildsen.

Author

Chéroux, Clément, 1970-

Publication

Göttingen : Steidl, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eskildsen, Ute.
• Fotomuseum Winterthur.
• Jeu de paume (Gallery : France)
• Museum Folkwang Essen.

Description

215 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

At the start of the 20th century, long before the triumphal march of the illustrated press, photography in the form of postcards was all the rage. This volume presents the extraordinary inventiveness in postcard production that unites elements of popular culture with photographic images.

Subject

• Lévy, Gérard (Antiquarian) > Art collections
• Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982 > Art collections
• Lévy, Gérard (Antiquarian)
• Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982
• Lévy, Gérard > konstsamlingar
• Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982 > konstsamlingar
• Postcards > Private collections > Exhibitions
• Postcards in art > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Fantasy in art > Exhibitions
• Art > Private collections
• Fantasy in art
• Photography, Artistic
• Postcards in art
• Postcards > Private collections
• Vykort > historia > utställningskataloger
• Vykort > privata samlingar > utställningskataloger
• Fotografi > historia > utställningskataloger
• Fotokonst > historia > utställningskataloger

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition: The stamp of fantasy: the visual inventiveness of photographic postcards at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Jeu de Paume / Hôtel de Sully, Paris, and Museum Folkwang, Essen."--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207).

ISBN

• 9783865216083
• 3865216080

LCCN

2013432084

OCLC

• ocn174131617
• 174131617
• SCSB-1485066

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library