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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Everyone enjoys visiting markets, especially on holiday abroad when it s a chance to see a variety of foodstuffs and goods that differ from our own and, of course, the people, the faces, that one can study and relish at ease; because the particular space and atmosphere of the market place permits staring, admiring, sampling, chatting, even photo snapping as normal behaviour.

This collection of images from cards of about one hundred years ago, or more, shows markets we rarely see today, where actual producers sell their own crops directly to those who will eat them. Some of the cards are of wholesale dealings in great city agora, but most of them illustrate small human encounters often in humble settings in Africa and Asia, as well as in the agricultural paradise of old France.

- John Kasmin

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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients.

My interest in collecting these cards is rather similar to that I ascribe to the original senders of them but of course I enjoy too their survival intact and the hunt for them in dealers’ boxes and albums. And then the pleasure of sharing them with you.

- John Kasmin

Paperback
120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients.

My interest in collecting these cards is rather similar to that I ascribe to the original senders of them but of course I enjoy too their survival intact and the hunt for them in dealers’ boxes and albums. And then the pleasure of sharing them with you.

- John Kasmin

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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Perhaps you will be not only surprised, but also inspired, by the oddities included.

- John Kasmin

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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

An idiosyncratic collection of often bizarre postcards with a performing/theatrical bent from the famous art dealer.

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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Such is the case with photography too, and the main difference now is that the book is frequently replaced by a newspaper or magazine. It is said nowadays that reading, in the way that these postcards show it, is a dying activity. That will make this book a useful record of a long-lost habit.

- John Kasmin

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120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

In the early decades of the last century, the majority of shops were run as a family affair by people who knew their customers and were proud of their businesses. They often lived at or near their shops and the enterprise was at the centre of their lives.These cards show that professional photographers gained work and money by persuading shopkeepers to commission pictures of themselves before their windows as a form of advertising. Using daylight dispersed with the need for expensive lighting – and the postcard photos could also serve as a form of correspondence between relations and friends. Using daylight also meant that reflections might be registered on the large glass windows and these reflections certainly charmed me when buying these postcards in France and the USA – the countries where I found more beautiful examples than elsewhere. Often, indeed, I bought the cards because of the rich and mysterious nature of the reflected world.
- John Kasmin

Paperback
120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Paperback
120 pages
19.4 x 14.4 x 1.4 cm

Before photographically illustrated magazines or newspapers, before television and facebook networks existed, in the fi rst decade or so of the twentieth century, picture postcards were sent by the hundreds of millions worldwide bearing messages between friends and families, and providing images of peoples, places and events to inform and entertain the recipients.

My interest in collecting these cards is rather similar to that I ascribe to the original senders of them but of course I enjoy too their survival intact and the hunt for them in dealers’ boxes and albums. And then the pleasure of sharing them with you.

- John Kasmin

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