Going Postal

In 1907, the US Postal Service began allowing personal messages written on the back of postcards. At about the same time, Kodak came out with an easy-to-use camera for the masses. And thus the photo postcard was born, flourishing into the 1930s. Harvey Tulcensky, a New York-based artist, has passionately collected real photo [...]

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Concierges

On Friday night I drove to a quiet corner of North Beach at dusk, walked down a flight of cement steps, through a dark narrow corridor then out into a garden. Hidden at the back of the courtyard on the bottom floor of a small, white wood-framed house was the Bonnafont Gallery. [...]

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Mistakes

Non Facturé: Rejected Photographs gathers together all the double exposures, underexposures, overexposures, out-of-focus, blurred prints that the photo labs didn’t think anyone could possibly want. Blurred neon, faces cropped at odd angles, accidental midriffs, shaky and tremulous street scenes, forests of legs and feet shot by a camera while the owner wasn’t looking. Viewed together, [...]

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