Thursday Postcard Hunt is dedicated to
Illustrations this week. Have not you noticed that lately, finding illustrated postcards when you travel is easier than finding traditional photos? Which ones do you prefer?
Qibao Old Street is located in Qibao Ancient Town, Minhang District, Shanghai. The entire street boasts a rich variety of local snacks and antique architecture. Qibao Ancient Town, like many other ancient towns in the Taihu Lake region of southern China, is a picturesque town within a city, and also the closest ancient town to downtown Shanghai. Qibao originated in the Later Han Dynasty, developed in the early Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, boasting a history of over 1000 years. As a historically important town known as Songdu, Qibao possesses a profound cultural heritage.The Tudor Gatehouse. The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great (Smithfield, London). From the COVID lockdown sketchbook of Peter Delaney.
Cass Art. Hamspead (London, UK). Illustrated by Nina Cosford.
Minster Church, Thanet (UK).
Ohio (USA).
Postcards sent by Yingzhen (China), Laura (the UK) and Heleen-Phillip (the Netherlands-USA).
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I like the Tudor Gatehouse and also the Cass Art. Very pretty!
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DeleteI often find I prefer the illustrated cards better. Not sure why.
ReplyDeleteI cannot state a preference. But I am getting more and more illustrated cards, that's for sure.
DeleteAlso, I really like the gatehouse and the modern building - such a cool juxtaposition!
ReplyDeleteThey make cool cards, indeed.
DeleteAll great stuff.
ReplyDeleteWhat I think is that people tend to downplay photography because they think everyone can do it, since it is a device who makes the image, not the actual person.
Illustration requires a totally different set of skills and has no interposed self creating device between you and the final result, so it it not a thing that everyone can create.
I'm of course oversimplifying, but in thuth postcards many times have very lousy photos, (hence people thinking they all can do it..:-)) while illustrated postcards tend to have higher quality stuff in them.
Of course there are great postcards with excellent photographs, and cards with infra-lousy illustration, but photo cards have been around for ages, and it is only now that illustration is becoming as frequent this being also something that plays in favour of the latter...
Same happens with stamps: Photography is cheap and fast to produce not so illustration. nowadays you take a photo slap a couple of layers above it with the denomination and country of origin and you have a stamp. Traditional illustrations took much longer, were more labour and intelect intensive, hence costly...
Oh, I'm getting carried away sorry... nice topic for a discussion.
When I travel, I usually send pictures with photographs. But probably that is due to the fact that I don't use social networks, so I want to show the places as I see them. These days, as Joy wrote on the comment below, I am happy if I just find a place to buy decent postcards of the place, whatever the style!
DeleteI like the gatehouse and think back to those times when it would be quiet enough to stand and sketch your surroundings in London. I like both photos and illustrations, just happy if I can find somewhere that sells postcards.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point: finding postcards is becoming more and more difficult everywhere. Sometimes I ask and they look at me like if I am from a different planet... :)
DeleteI think that around 90% of the postcards I send are tourist postcards with photos. The rest are maps, works of art (photos, I guess), and very few illustrated postcards.
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