Although postcards are usually associated with cheeky seaside tableaus and banal holiday pleasantries, they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections - connections between people, places and beliefs.
This book examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art and culture. It shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
| ISBN: | 9781789144840 |
| Publication date: | 18th October 2021 |
| Author: | Lydia Pyne |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
History Social and cultural history |
Although postcards are usually associated with cheeky seaside tableaus and banal holiday pleasantries, they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections - connections between people, places and beliefs.
This book examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art and culture. It shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
Postcards features in the following genres: History, Social and cultural history
Postcards is available in Hardback
Postcards was written by Lydia Pyne and published by Reaktion Books
Postcards has 232 pages
£33.30