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 ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This real ...

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 ...

LORAIN – For photo postcard fanatics and lovers of Lorain’s history, a visual treasure trove awaits in the form of a soon-to-be-released book titled, ‘Lorain: The Real Photo Postcards of Willis Leiter ...

What’s the cheapest and easiest way to shoot and share a quick-and-dirty snapshot? Today, of course, it’s the cell-phone camera. A century ago it was the real-photo postcard. As Luc Sante explains in ...

Manitowoc artists Julie Lindemann and John Shimon are proving what's old is new again. You may have seen them, the studio portrait penny postcards that show up in estate sales and antique stores. They ...

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 ...

For documentary photographer Edward Boches, the Allston neighborhood is “like a magnet.” He loves the signs and murals, which he has captured in high definition over the last year. The barber shops.

Reader ladyada sends in a tip for personalized vacation photo postcards that everyone will enjoy: When you go on vacation, take a $10 disposable camera (or your digital camera if the photo store ...