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"The Illustrated Postcards. Towards a socio-semiotics of Image and Imaginarium" Project approved and financed by Fundao para a Cincia e a Tecnologia, developed in the Centro de Estudos de Comunicao e Sociedade (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal) since 2007, and coordinated by Moiss de Lemos Martins

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Postcard from the Martin Parr collection, currently in exhibition at Jeu de Paume, in Paris (France)

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Postcard from the Martin Parr collection, included in the the american version of Boring Postcards

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"Je les collectionne car j'aime le ct dmocratique, populaire des cartes postales, ces petites photos que les gens envoient, gardent dans des botes, collent sur leurs murs. Au tournant du XIXe et du XXe sicle, on a assist au grand boom de la carte postale. Ces images taient les tmoins du monde, quasiment les seules reprsenter les lieux, la vie, les vnements, d'une manire massive. On sous-estime trop la carte postale. C'est une source intarissable de documentation." Estas foram as palavras com que o fotgrafo ingls Martin Parr se referiu aos postais, numa recente entrevista ao jornal semanal e gratuito parisiense Nous a propsito da exposio Plante Parr que o museu Jeu de Paume em Paris exibe desde o passado dia 30 de Junho. A coleco de Martin Parr de cerca de 20 mil postais tornou-se conhecida pela srie de

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postais britnicos, americanos e alemes que compem os trs livros Boring Postcards, editados nos anos 90. Nestas publicaes, como o prprio ttulo indica, os postais de nolugares sucedem-se numa monotonia irnica: estaes de servio, arranha-cus plidos e cinzentos, auto-estradas, lavandarias, quartos de hotel vazios... Na exposio Plante Parr, podem ver-se postais chatos mas tambm alguns de cores mais berrantes, com um tom mais divertido, bizarro e grotesco. Agrupados ainda em publicaes como o

recente ParrWorld: Objects and Postcards, um catlogo duplo editado pela Aperture Foundation, os postais de Martin Parr so propositadamente imagens medocres, longe dos cnones do bom gosto, que nos levam ao inslito atravs do que nos terrivelmente familiar. I collect them because I appreciate the democratic and popular aspects of postcards, these small photos that people send, keep in boxes, and stick in their walls. At the turn of XIXth and XXth century, weve seen the postcard boom. These pictures were the worlds witnesses, almost the only ones representing places, life, events, in a massive way. We underestimate too much the postcard. Its a inexhaustible source of documentation. It was with these words that the British photographer Martin Parr mentioned the postcards, during a recent interview with the weekly Pariss free newspaper Nous about the exhibition Plante Parr that the museum Jeu de Paume, in Paris, has recently opened up. Martin Parr's collection of over 20.000 cards has become known by the series

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Our Papers Dos postais ilustrados aos posts nos weblogues: para uma scio-semitica da imagem e do imaginrio/From the illustrated postcards to the posts in blogs: towards a sociosemiotics of image and 'imaginarium', Moiss de Lemos Martins, Helena Pires, Madalena Oliveira Leituras da paisagem atravs de postais ilustrados: para uma sociosemitica da imagem e do imaginrio, Miguel Bandeira O postal ilustrado da frente ao verso, imagens mais do que reprodutveis, The illustrated postcard recto-verso: more than reproducible pictures, Maria da Luz Correia Postais ilustrados: souvenirs intimos e publicitrios/The illustrated postcards: intimate and advertising souvenirs, Maria da Luz Correia

of British, American and German postcards, which compose the three books Boring Postcards, published in the nineties. As the title suggests, in these publications, the postcards of no-places follow one after another, with an ironical monotony: motor way service stations, pale and grey skyscrapers, laundries, empty hotel rooms... In the exhibition Plante Parr, at Jeu de Paume, we can see boring postcards but also some postcards with louder colours, and a funny, bizarre and grotesque tone. Martin Parrs postcards, which are also assembled in publications such as ParrWorld: Objects and Postcards a double volume published in 2008 by Aperture Foundation Editions -, are purposely mediocre pictures, far away from the good taste canons, which take us to the unfamiliar by showing extremely familiar places. Posted by Maria da Luz Correia at 10:16 PM Labels: exhibitions, museums, postcards artistic appropriation, postcards collection

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