Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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What's the Percentage of a Political or Am International Affairs?
Historians estimate that in the first two deca of the twentieth century, something like 200 billion postcards were in global circulation. And so it starts with a photographer and ends sort of with an editor. But there does seem to emerge an aesthetic for different companies. The curtique postcards are going to have a certain kind of image that's associated with them. They almost become their own genres, i would say, in a more sort of art history kind of way.
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