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Amália Rodrigues, cantora e actriz portuguesa Portuguese postcard by the Museu Nacional do Teatro. Photo: Studio Harcourt (1956) |
Referências:
Willoughby, Martin (1993) História do bilhete postal. Caminho: Lisboa.
http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.pt
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Amália Rodrigues, cantora e actriz portuguesa Portuguese postcard by the Museu Nacional do Teatro. Photo: Studio Harcourt (1956) |
Postcard published by Fête de la Lettre and created by the graphic designer Ben
A ideia ficou célebre desde Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message". No caso dos postais sobre postais, podemos também indubitavelmente inverter a fórmula: "The message is the medium". Esta colecção de meta-postais, que tenho acumulado desde Setembro de 2008, terá mais “meios” e mais “mensagens”, se enviarem as vossas contribuições, propostas e sugestões para mariadaluzcorreia@gmail.com. Obrigada.
The idea got famous since Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message". In the matter of postcards about postcards, we can also for sure inverse the formula: "The message is the medium". This meta-postcards collection, which I've been accumulating since September 2008, will have more “media” and more “messages” if you send your collaborations, propositions and suggestions to mariadaluzcorreia@gmail.com. Thank you.
"Beaucoup de ces artistes [créateurs américains de cartes postales] avaient débuté dans la bande dessinée. La reproduction en cartes postales des héros de bande dessinée est née, au début du siècle, d'un souci commercial: le Chicago Tribune joint à son édition du dimanche, celle qui assure les trois quarts du profit hebdomadaire, une planche de cartes à découper. En 1906, le Sunday, appartenant à Hearst, l'imite avec des feuilles de cartes postales détachables, dessinées par Outcault et Opper, tous deux auteurs de comics." Aline Ripert & Claude Frere, 2001, La Carte Postale: son histoire, sa fonction sociale, Paris: CNRS Editions
"Most of these artists [postcard American designers] had started off as comics designers. The reproduction of comics heroes in postcards appeared because of commercial concerns: the Chicago Tribune, in its Sunday edition which assured three quarters of weekly profit, attached postcards to be cut out. In 1906, the Sunday, owned by Hearst, followed the example with sheets of detachable postcards, designed by Outcault and Opper, who were both comics authors." Aline Ripert & Claude Frere, Carte Postale: son histoire, sa fonction sociale, Aline Ripert & Claude Frere, Paris: CNRS Editions
The relationship between comics and postcards was first inspired by some collectors, such as the Portuguese blogger Geraldes Lino, who accumulates postcards about comics. Although, the connection between postcards - which are “light” letters - and comics - which are often considered as “light” books - can be thought in other perspectives. Comics can be defined as a graphic medium in which pictures are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative. Postcards can be similarly considered as a graphic medium in which images are used in order to convey a personal message. The ambiguous proximity between images and words can be equally observed in comics and postcards. Moreover, they became popular mass media at the same epoch, in the XXth century. Finally, artistic postcards (from mail art, design...) and comics are similarly related to underground cultures and to marginal artist practices. Even if most ‘picture letters’ are tourist objects and most ‘picture books’ are an artistic expression, they can both perform a singular combination of popularity, marginality, and artistic appropriation.