„Na skrzynce pocztowej opieram chwilę głowę”. O znaczkach i kartach - przykład Francji
“I rest my head for a moment on the letter box”. On Postage Stamps and Postcards - the Example of France

Summary/Abstract: The mid-nineteenth century witnessed the simultaneous emergence of two new types of iconic media: the photograph and the postage stamp. For the next 150 years the two moulded visual culture by defining its important practices. The photograph became the central theme of widely comprehended studies on the image and visual culture, but “postcard pictures” became enclosed in the intellectual ghetto of philately, on an extremely distant margin of interests pursued by culture studies.The topic of the article deals, therefore, with postal practices from the turn of the nineteenth century, discussed upon the example of France: the cultural consequences of phenomena treated, as a rule, solely as postal technology. This is an opening fragment of a book about the anthropology of the postage stamp.

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