An avid
collector of vintage postcards, Wegman first turned a group of postcards into a painting while working on an artist's book in the early 1990s, melding real and fictive space and photography with the whimsical effects available to painters.
Main image: Courtesy of Barbican, from a
series of vintage postcards (1965 - 68) from the Moscow Design Museum, appearing at the exhibition
Divided into seven sections, the exhibition includes a
college of vintage postcards, dye - transferred captures of mom - and - pop shops, and photos of 1930s black lesbian actress Fae Richards.
Zoe Leonard, American photographer and artist gave a
reading of vintage postcards of Niagara Falls that the artist collected from flea markets and online sales.
Leonard and Copeland took two of her works as touchstones for their exchange: The Fae Richards Photo Archive (1993 — 96), originally conceived as part of Cheryl Dunye's film The Watermelon Woman (US, 1996), and You see I am here after all (2008), a gridded
concatenation of vintage postcards depicting views of Niagara Falls.
He's also a
collector of vintage postcards, and while working on a book project he decided to use actual postcards within his paintings as a way of meshing real and imaginary space, photography and painterly effects.
The Toronto Postcard Club has much to offer to anyone who is a collector
of vintage postcards.
, gold taper candles in brass and silver candlesticks, and a collection
of vintage postcards.
I shared
some of my vintage postcards for Easter too.