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Post Cards
June 07, 2009
May 25, 2009
March 14, 2009
Three Postcards from the Exceptional Collection at Fotofolio
Fotofolio is a superior publisher of postcards. Amazing catalog. Here are three cards from my collection.
First, a 1955 portrait of Sophia Loren by George Daniell:
Second, the model-turned-photographer, Ellen von Unwerth, gives us "Nudes in the Royalton, New York," 1992:
Finally, Patricia Arquette, from the Chelsea Hotel, NYC, 1992, as photographed by Bruce Weber:
Two "Freecards" from GoCard: Milk & Amtrak
Here's Tyra Banks for the milk campaign in 1996:
And this freecard from GoCard is an ad for Amtrak:
February 08, 2008
The Silent Majority Who Can Speak If They Only Will
No matter what the great Henry David Thoreau said about voting, you
should vote. It doesn't have to be a playing with right and wrong, "a
sort of gaming...with a slight moral tinge to it." Don't we know by
now that change is always difficult? We must imagine ourselves happy,
pushing that rock up the hill. Voting is one thing you do that one
day--one thing among others--to nudge the sludge.
January 17, 2008
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Post Card
I flipped through the post cards behind the "Politics" category, hoping to find some "good" post cards, a few cards of sufficient interest to me to add to my growing collection. Aside from the fact that I can't afford anything very expensive, I don't pay much attention to the prices. It seems some post cards I find boring are worth money to dealers and the "true" collectors because of some fine detail concerning some aspect of the card that's totally irrelevant to me. Some post cards dealers sell for a quarter have great value for me and are "beautiful" to me for reasons beyond the beauty many post card collectors see in post cards of animals and flowers. I'm an I'll-know-it-when-I-see-it collector of post cards.
I wasn't long at this particular dealer's tables, flipping through the "Politics" category, when I found a post card that fascinated me. On the front was a photo that featured three men in white shirts. On the left and in the middle were two white men, seated. The third man, also seated, was Martin Luther King, Jr. Just in case one missed it, the man seated in the middle had an arrow imposed over his shirt pointing to the "black" man and labeled "King." The top of the front of this post card read, "Martin Luther King at Communist Training School."
