Sometimes it takes a small press to make a truly interesting book. Yeti Books, with the help of Verse Chorus Press in Portland, Ore., is behind “Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard 1905 ...

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In rural America at the beginning of the twentieth century, the worldwide postcard craze coincided with the spread of light, cheap photographic equipment. The result was the real-photo postcard, ...

As I’ve mentioned before in a couple columns, the golden age of postcards was generally considered to be the 1910s to the 1930s. Starting in the 1930s, though, senders of postcards could purchase ones ...

For the creative pioneers who embraced early photographic technology, producing “art” was very much a matter of trial and error. As Anne Havinga, Estrellita and ...

Steven.G, a multi-disciplinary professional photographer and graphic designer, put his stamp on his hometown with a special project. “Postcards of Petersburg” combines his passion for photography and ...

Photographer Jack Pierson emerged alongside colleagues Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Mark Morrisroe from the Boston school of photographers with a radical vision of personal documentation and the ...