Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Postcards and the Exoticism of Tourism
The postcard is going to pander to not only the sendera, the sender's preconceptions. And i think it plays into also the idea of a sort of the exoticism of tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. The images that you so ar are a of women rit and of women doing traditional a perhaps labor in this country. Some of the examples that, am, that came up were really interesting to think about in terms of who whether permissions were given for putting images on pictures.
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