About 85 Years Ago: Postcards from a Changing Time

by David Chien

Book Overview

History's first amateur photographers lived at the beginning of the 20th century, when photography was just one of many technologies that were dramatically altering the ways people related to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570981507
• ISBN13: 9781570981500
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Ageless

After I finished the last page I found I was speechless. I read it once again and then I read it yet again. I think the author wanted the images he picked out to make us see people in the past that we could relate to. The images that we see in "85 years" show us people in the old Pacific Northwest that remind us of people we might see in our own neighborhood.. Instead of it looking B & W and faded they seem to take on a living hue in these photographs. You could esentially picture the scene. The people pictured were are all being themselves, and in a culture that is so youth oriented it is nice sometimes to be reminded that there are legions who have gone before us.

Step into the daily past of ordinary folks...

Contains beautiful day-in-the-life-of postcards from ordinary Pacific Northwest folk in the early 1900's. Author contributes a few sentences here and there to introduce the photos. It's more like looking at someone's photo album than a book -- light on words, heavy on postcards. But the photos are gold. Evoking a time and place long gone but not quite forgotten (thankfully). A must for anyone interested in real photo postcards of people, buildings, and social activities of the day.