Postcards from Spain - Historic Photo Exhibit

Описание: Take a look ato some images of my collection of postcards presented at the National Day of Spain Party, per invitation of the Consul General of Spain Jesus Sanz Escorihuela. This video features more beautifully reproduced postcards. The postcards span the period from 1920 to 1970, encompassing themes and geographies that reflect Spain's sentimental history. The collection includes travel stories and conversations with America, specifically with a Mexican family.
In this visual journey, we treat the postcard as a means of communication that allows the viewer to share the values, customs, and dreams of the era. We invite you to contemplate the images as one of the first social media platforms with interpersonal messages. This digital document evokes the signs of modernization that reached Spain and generated a significant tourism boom.
The language of the postcard and its history bring up moments in the collective memory and highlight this medium as an instrument of communication and information.
Postwar Spain experienced reforms in a country that focused on tourism. In this collection, we present imagery of some Spanish cities in the areas of artistic history, urban development, and modernization.
In the 1930s, this medium was so important that it led to the founding of "La Casa de la Postal" in Barcelona. Later, in the 1950s, tourism became the essential stimulus for the survival of the postcard under the well-known slogan "Spain is different."
This video is a testimony that allows us to aesthetically understand a period of transition that led to contemporary Spain.
The topics included here cover the iconographic universe of beaches, churches, dances, and locals from various regions of the country.
We invite you to enjoy this video and reevaluate the art of the postcard, and to link this tradition with the modernity of social media.