Real Photo Postcards Unbelievable Images from the Collection of Harvey Tulcensky /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wolff, Laetitia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Arts.; Cultural and Media Studies.

It may be hard to believe, but there actually was a time when the postcard image was not a cliché. To reach it, you'll have to set your clock back to the end of the nineteenth century, when an Act of Congress allowed Americans to mail a card for just one cent. A few years later, Kodak introduce...

Table of Contents:

• And We Lived Where Dusk Had Meaning
• Parading
• At Work
• Romance
• Night & Day
• Portraits
• Motion & Machines
• Geometries
• Catch & Kill
• Harvest
• Uncanny
• Main Street
• Amusements
• Disasters
• Home Sweet Home
• Interview with Harvey Tulcensky.