Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fantastic Postcards: The Playful Element of Photography in the Medium of the Postcard
(October 27 - February 10, 2007/2008)
Photographers included:
|
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
Winterthur
Switzerland
| Tel | +41 (0) 52 234 10 60 | | Fax | +41 (0) 52 233 60 97 |
www.fotomuseum.ch |
|
"Fantastic Postcards" examines the everyday item "postcard", which was the first mass media article to make a major contribution to the democratic dissemination of images and photography in 1900. This was before magazines and books. On the example of 450 specimens, the exhibition shows the great and widespread pleasure that was taken in experimentation in postcard production, where elements of popular culture mingled with the photographic image. Iconographic models from the 19th and 20th centuries will be p
