Marie-Ève Bouillon / Valérie Perlès
Since the end of the 19th century, postcards have played an essential role in the pictorial representation of territories. Initially linked to migration, they gradually became a vacation ritual with the rise of paid leaves and mass tourism. Nouvelles du paradis takes an original, dual approach to the postcard, considering it both as an object of corresponde(...)
Since the end of the 19th century, postcards have played an essential role in the pictorial representation of territories. Initially linked to migration, they gradually became a vacation ritual with the rise of paid leaves and mass tourism. Nouvelles du paradis takes an original, dual approach to the postcard, considering it both as an object of correspondence and as an industrialized, editorialized item. Conceived as a reference work, this book links various disciplines’ (history, sociology, ethnology, contemporary art) contributions to paint a very complete picture of the evolution of this popular yet almost extinct medium.