Metaleptic Variations by Dominique Pernot

“…Josipovici provides a phenomenological, self-reflexive metacommentary on the writer’s condition and acknowledges the limits of fiction writing, while recognizing the fleeting, evanescent presence of the artist who passes “through the world”, exemplified by the figure of the artist represented on a postcard, a reproduction of The Wander-Artist by Paul Klee, with whom the narrator closely identifies.…”
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Luttes pour l’environnement et droit à la ville dans la capitale du Minas Gerais (Brésil) by Pauline Bosredon, Frédéric Dumont, Valentina Bonafine , Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz

“…Topped by its landscape, the Serra is a geographical reference for the entire metropolitan area, a historical, natural and scenic symbol of Belo Horizonte. In this postcard-like environment, between the wealthy neighborhoods, a small slum called "Acaba mundo" developed, contrary to the social conditions of these neighborhoods, which constitutes one of the poorest areas of Belo Horizonte and that takes part of its resources from its proximity to nature. …”
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Se suspendre aux lendemains de Fessenheim – une approche croisée sur les traces visibles et invisibles d’un territoire nucléaire en transformation. by Élise Alloin, Florence Fröhlig

“…This article presents four audience-specific meeting devices: an introductory exhibition, a round table, a postcard, and an event for schoolchildren. These were developed to raise awareness about the issue at stake and to collect the imaginaries that this power station has left among the people concerned.These participatory action-research devices, carried out over almost a year, made it possible to open dialogue and raise awareness among a public that is generally reluctant to engage with the material and immaterial value of the plant in the region. …”
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

“…Editors of popular postcards, quite in vogue at the time, also added their contribution to anti-suffrage propaganda. …”
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La ville européenne de Sousse : naissance d’un paysage urbain by Afef Ghannouchi

“…Through the reading of archival documents, newspapers of the period, and an iconographic analysis : city maps, postcards, architectural plans, postcards and photos of the time, we suggest to deal with the question into three parts : The first part highlights the idea of the establishment and the development of the European cities of North Africa. …”
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Lost in Reintegration? by Magdalena Grenda

“…This article describes different approaches to the issue of image reintegration and filling in the areas of loss in photographs and photographic postcards. The approach varies depending on the context of the photographs’ usage, the owner’s expectations and the will of the photographer. …”
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Censorship and Magic Tricks in Inter-War Britain by Lisa Z. Sigel

“…This paper demonstrates that between World War One and World War Two, the British state censored a variety of media including books, magazines, postcards, and films as well as engaging in public trials of obscene books that generated enormous publicity. …”
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De Félix Martin-Sabon à Pierre Pradel, une histoire de plaques de verre by Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…The École du Louvre holds, in the spaces of its photographic library, an iconographic collection made up of photographs, postcards, positive and negative glass plates in various sizes, black and white, autochromes, celluloid negatives and slides, supplanted by digital in 1995. …”
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Mémoire et images du travail dans les parfumeries grassoises (1900-1950) : les clichés du genre by Coline Zellal

“…In the first half of the 20th century, the perfume industry in Grasse sought to preserve its image anchored in a traditional production process while adjusting to the new industrial technologies of the period. Using as sources postcards, movies and photographs, the author explores the weight of gendered task divisions from the picking of flowers to packaging, revealing the changing gendered contours of shops, businesses and, indeed, the whole sector. …”
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L’enquête des Volontaires de Tianjin. Un objet social complexe au prisme de la sociologie et des humanités numériques by Aurélia Desplain, Isabelle Thireau

“…In addition, the digital exhibition of photographs and postcards has contributed to the access and preservation of rich data for the social sciences. …”
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Book review: Who cares about feeling good? The Who Cares? Trust. London, The Who Cares? Trust, 2008. 41pp, ISBN 1903239281 by Robyn Willis

“…It’s not even like a book really because it looks like a set of big postcards that have been put together with a wire binder. …”

Black Sea Tourism and the Orient: Bulgarian Visual Images (1920s–1980s) by Georgeta Nazarska

“…The main sources, analyzed from a social-historical perspective in comparison with other sources and as visual sources in relevant cultural discourse, are Bulgarian postcards and photographs with Oriental motifs aimed at attracting tourists and activating their ideas about the East. …”
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The Spanish Latin lover: a strictly domestic myth? by Alicia Fuentes Vega

“…Building on a visual analysis of several media (brochures and magazines, Government propaganda, guidebooks and travel books, postcards), this paper examines the actual presence of the Latin lover in Spanish tourism imaginaries during the Franco dictatorship. …”
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Svědectví „starých obrazů“: kulturní krajina ideální a reálná by Robert Šimůnek

“… Old maps and images – paintings, drawings, graphics, and, in recent centuries, old photographs and postcards – capture the space around us, the proverbial “stage of history”, and have been seen as lucrative antiques for ages. …”
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Vision et visibilité : la rhétorique visuelle des suffragistes et des suffragettes britanniques de 1907 à 1914 by Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

“…In such a context, suffragist iconography conveyed singularly effective visual rhetoric persuading the Edwardians through varied eye-catching media, shows, processions, posters, postcards, photographs, accessories and many other common objects. …”
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Antecedents of Instapoetry: Considering the Commercial Short Form Aphorism Before and Beyond the Social Media Sphere by James Mackay, Polina Mackay

“…We suggest that broader consideration should be given to previous iterations of commercial short-form aphorisms, such as those found in postcards, greetings cards and novelty items like motivational posters, to better understand the cultural significance of Instapoetry.…”
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Closing Age and Race Gaps in Elections Through Inclusive and Contextual Communications by Julia Fisher Cummings

“…Survey participants saw one of two virtual political postcards describing a minimum wage policy issue, each with varying attention to DEI. …”
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Etno-show Quando l’antropologia andò in scena, un’antropologia bella da vedere by Alberto Baldi

“…It is a variegated Otherness which turns up, sometimes near, some other three-dimensional and tangible, in other words “alive”; it follows postures and is in relation with activities, situations and environments which instead hypostasize and strictly control it, thus reasserting the hegemony of a western perspective which depicts intriguing “postcards” of this otherness, and puts a price on it with the complicity of Anthropology; rather with a certain Anthropology which embellishes the world, changing it in a sort of ethno-show. …”
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“Cinephemera” from a Librarianship Perspective: Theory, Practice, Cataloguing Evidence by Lucia Antonelli

“…With this aim, the article presents the results of a survey conducted on cinephemera catalogued in the Opac SBN - postcards, press-book, posters, calendars and stickers produced in Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. …”
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Le parc national de l’Ichkeul (Tunisie) : une zone humide rétrolittorale aux paysages vulnérabilisés by Nathalie Carcaud

“…The documentary sources selected are colonial documentary films, small-scale maps and written documents from the region, large-scale topographic maps, postcards and oblique aerial photographs. This research demonstrates the influence of the period of the French protectorate in the beginning of the transformation of the landscapes and the vulnerability of the Bizerte-Ichkeul hinterland complex.…”
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