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THOMSON, DavidWill Write Soon
Londra - Guingamp, Archive of Modern Conflict - Centre d'Art GwinZegal 2024 - Prima edizione (First Edition)
Volume published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Will Write Soon. Postcards from the ‘new' world', Centre d'Art GwinZegal, Guingamp, 23 February - 16 June 2024. Photographs collected by David Thomson. Texts by D. Thomson and Luce Lebart
Cm 24x17, pp. 184 Brossura (wrappers) Nuovo (New)The hundreds of photographs gathered in Will Write Soon, lead us into the meanderings of day-to-day life in the towns and countryside of North America at the turn of the 20th century. Real photographic postcards (RPPCs) are hybrid images, halfway between traditional photographs and postcards. The original prints were not mass produced but real artisanal photographs produced from silver gelatin negatives developed in chemical baths. On the back, like traditional postcards, there is a space to put a stamp and an address, as well as a few words. Sending an image from home was a practice that enjoyed extraordinary popularity from 1905 to the late 1930s, particularly in the rural regions of America's heartland.
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