News from Paradise: The Holiday Postcard

News from Paradise: The Holiday Postcard - Since the end of 19th century, the postcard plays a key role in the depiction of territories. First linked to voluntary or forced migrations, it is essential gradually becoming a holiday ritual with the rise of paid holidays and tourism mass. \n \nSubject to increasingly tough competition, publishers of cards, true image entrepreneurs, covet the sites frequented, constantly amending their collections to ensure that they coincide as closely as possible with the changing consumer tastes, often adding to the “ideal” viewpoint, an azure blue sky... News from Paradise approaches postcards in a original and double angle: as an object of correspondence, on the one hand, and in as an industrial and editorialized product on the other hand. \n \nBy exhibiting this the mysteries of the production of commercial tourist imagery, instead of To be satisfied with a superficial iconographic commentary, this book fills a real gap. Designed as a reference work, it crosses the contributions from various disciplines (history, sociology, ethnology, art contemporary) to provide a very complete picture of the evolution of this object popular in danger of disappearing. \n \nFrom its places of emergence (Eiffel Tower, coastlines...) to the technical processes that publishers use to sell more, through the cartophile sociability of collectors and the new holiday stories through images in the age of social networks, the map Postal service is addressed from all angles.