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27 DECEMBER 2008
POSTCARDS
For over 100 years picture postcards have been the traditional way for holiday-makers and travellers to let their family and friends at home know what a wonderful time they were having. The Royal Horticultural Halls in Victoria, London were the venue for this year’s Picture Postcard Show.
At the collectors' fair Sandi Toksvig is joined by photographer Martin Parr, a keen collector, particularly of postcards many of which he has published in his picture books with titles like “Postcards” and “Boring Postcards”. He is also well known for his photographs of tourists and the seaside. He and Sandi take a look at the world of postcards. What does the choice and style of the views and the messages sent reveal about Britain's changing social history? They explore what postcards reveal about the way we see places and why they are a must for tourists.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photograph: ('Leaning Tower of Pisa' - Courtesy of Martin Parr ©)
This week’s guests:
Martin Parr is a documentary photographer, photojournalist and collector. Martin is a keen collector of postcards many of which have been used as the basis for publications. Since the seventies he has collected and publicised the garish postcards made between the 1950s and 1970s by John Hinde and his team of photographers.
Postcards
Publisher: Chris Boot
ISBN-10: 1905712103
ISBN-13: 978-1905712106
Boring Postcards
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN-10: 0714843911
ISBN-13: 978-0714843919
Small World
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN-10: 1904587402
ISBN-13: 978-1904587408
Brian Lund publishes ‘Picture Postcard Monthly’ and runs a website Reflections of a Bygone Age. Even though photography had been around since the 1830s, the first picture post cards appeared in 1894. In that year they were finally permitted by the Post Office and quickly became very popular and the period until 1918 was regarded as the golden age of the postcard.
Picture Postcard Monthly
Reflections of a Bygone Age
15 Debdale Lane
Keyworth
Nottingham
NG12 5HT
Postcard Traders Association
24 Parry Road
Sholing
Southampton
SO19 0HU
Susan Beale is a part-time teacher of dyslexic children and Michelle Abadie is a book and web designer. Nothing to write home about has been compiled, edited and designed by them in aid of Carers UK. It documents the heyday of the British holiday postcard. It is a collection of John Hinde’s postcards and the messages written on them by holidaymakers between 1960s and 1980s.
Nothing to Write Home About – Celebrating the heyday of the British holiday postcard
By Michelle Abadie & Susan Beale
Publisher: The Friday Project Limited
ISBN-10: 1905548362
ISBN-13: 978-1905548361
Also featured are:
Chris Hoskins, postcard dealer and collector
Palle Petersen, Danish postcard collector and seller
John Claydon, postcard collector with a special interest in cold war postcards
Angela, young collector from New Zealand who bought some postcards featuring aeroplanes for her motherThe BBC cannot be held responsible for
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