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.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Klich, Lynda (Author) Weiss, Benjamin (Author)
Corporate Author:	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Author, Host institution)
Other Authors:	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.)
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2022]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Real photo postcards > United States > Exhibitions. Lauder, Leonard A. > Photograph collections > Exhibitions. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston > Exhibitions. Real photo postcards > Massachusetts > Boston > Exhibitions. United States > Social conditions > Pictorial works > Exhibitions. Vernacular photography > United States > Exhibitions. Portrait photography > United States > Exhibitions. Black-and-white photography > United States > Exhibitions. Lauder, Leonard A. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Black-and-white photography. Photograph collections. Portrait photography. Real photo postcards. Social conditions. Vernacular photography. Massachusetts > Boston. United States. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition, pictorial works.
Genre:	Exhibitions. Pictorial works Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition, pictorial works.
Physical Description:	311 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Variant Title:	Pictures from a changing nation Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive
Format:	Book

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.