tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32767380639232530932024-03-04T22:57:54.874-08:00A POSTCARD ALMANACAncient postcards, anonymous photographs, trade cards, and other ephemera. One to be posted every day of the year. Historical and aesthetic remarks sometimes appended. All cards are from my own collection--and out of the cradle endlessly rocking.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comBlogger520125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-46090628310874134252017-05-09T17:05:00.004-07:002017-05-09T17:05:51.138-07:00Street Art Photography From the Mission <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, Dolls---I've been on Instagram as chateauthierry for the past few months and have been unconscionably neglecting both of my blogs. But here's a stab at reanimation. Three photos I took in the Mission in San Francisco of street art last month.....<br />
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<br />Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-78458650602042842072017-03-13T11:11:00.003-07:002017-03-13T11:11:59.444-07:00Serape<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Page from a 19th-century tintype scrapbook. The women appear to me to be Mexican. Californians? Texans? Circa 1880.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-60011882920355159232016-09-09T18:48:00.002-07:002016-09-09T18:48:59.258-07:00Another Lovely Young Hammerhead Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not exactly a postcard or indeed photograph but a stunning image nonetheless---vernacular signage from Cabo Pulmo, Baja California.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-30831719537189723072016-07-25T18:11:00.002-07:002016-07-25T18:11:41.792-07:00I Forgot My Eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Polaroid with some nice greeny-goldy touches. I think those are big green pants she's wearing--with monster cowgirl belt. Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-30835721926092075712016-07-16T19:07:00.002-07:002016-07-16T19:07:27.492-07:00Things to Notice<br />
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Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-23972692622638419612016-07-04T11:23:00.001-07:002016-07-04T11:23:29.588-07:00Serious Arm Problems<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGSPVGiDx2uQFbx3ti3xne8_rlJw6Rjfmp8hUdrH5SDedzIcgb3VbK-7Nd64Cn3tLoAcMDgo4ae1G8G8l99mD8o9PxLaGAmYEo_ixnU_0JT_ot-2eunp0NtsbpEtD8h2jEENw9JQnxb0/s640/blogger-image--788499740.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiGSPVGiDx2uQFbx3ti3xne8_rlJw6Rjfmp8hUdrH5SDedzIcgb3VbK-7Nd64Cn3tLoAcMDgo4ae1G8G8l99mD8o9PxLaGAmYEo_ixnU_0JT_ot-2eunp0NtsbpEtD8h2jEENw9JQnxb0/s640/blogger-image--788499740.jpg"></a>A hand-drawn, home-made postcard circa 1910s. (?) The lady has a winsome expression and an arm and a half. Plus Gigantism of One Leg Syndrome, aggravated by Slipped-Down Knee. </div>Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-71298599250715568982016-06-29T18:11:00.000-07:002016-06-29T18:11:13.341-07:00My Friend Aquarius<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He's a Water Bearer. The outfit is jaunty; the hand-coloring confident, to say the least.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-91877588989002769532016-06-28T11:34:00.001-07:002016-06-28T11:34:10.733-07:00Enigmas of Family Life.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-9OQ4W9tdgzZ21dcKUd1t6aImcPKIfNDCAddVYQaCjfx1XSCFPHf_W_89Mf2hVRMpRJbZeGMworlIjBzHRSat2zJSZP1yvl81XfNJSmEV1BCMvFMWHU1RzF_gRmjGGnMBtXjxOmzYOI/s640/blogger-image-525050775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-9OQ4W9tdgzZ21dcKUd1t6aImcPKIfNDCAddVYQaCjfx1XSCFPHf_W_89Mf2hVRMpRJbZeGMworlIjBzHRSat2zJSZP1yvl81XfNJSmEV1BCMvFMWHU1RzF_gRmjGGnMBtXjxOmzYOI/s640/blogger-image-525050775.jpg"></a></div>Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-53213128396236986522016-06-20T20:26:00.003-07:002016-06-21T16:00:40.384-07:00When Google Just Meant Googly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Attached plastic eyes; the pupils move around. A luscious expression.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-28758381405818423652016-06-17T09:21:00.001-07:002016-06-21T16:02:24.006-07:00Hannah Höch, Always <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span><br />
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At present in Helsinki; last week, Bern and Zurich. Saw this Hoch-derived piece of signage in Zurich, where the whole city--indeed the whole country of Switzerland---is celebrating the Dada centenary. Cabaret Voltaire now a state-of-the-art digitally enhanced "arts destination," complete with expensive pop-up shop, little improv theater (off-limits the day I was there), Swiss white guy sporting dreadlocks AND man-bun (all on the same head), countless brochures announcing dubious pieces of upcoming performance art, etc., etc. Meanwhile, Hannah Hoch's little scissors retain their wry, burnished gleam.</div>
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Greasy Topknots--and all. That headband suggests eurythmic dancing, to say the least.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-80468172380754289062016-06-09T12:06:00.002-07:002016-07-04T11:15:50.522-07:00A Meme for All Seasons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my pet blog subjects, obviously: that strange subgenre in "romantic" turn-of-the-century French postcards (Gauziness is All) in which the "men" look so much like women they probably <b>are</b> women. Witness, indeed, the first two of the three exquisite images here: one might infer that the foppish creature (left), sniffing a perfumed letter, and the "man" in the couple below are in fact the same <b>woman</b>. Whose fabby idea was this? <br />
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The whole perverse business suggests a not-so-hidden collective disbelief in the existence of any "real-world" male pulchritude -- as in who would ever want to snog with a <b>real</b> man? <br />
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My own choice for favorite waltz partner would be the stellar eunuch in the third image. I have lots of other cards in which "he" appears. It must be admitted that "he" also resembles one of my better-looking male colleagues.<br />
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PS. One is reminded, by the way, of Japan's celebrated Takarazuka Revue. <br />
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<i> </i>"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."<br />
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She was glamorous, for sure, but not stupid. Despite being considered one of the most beautiful screen actresses of her day--she appeared in a string of MGM hits during the 1940s--the Viennese-born Hollywood leading lady Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) rejected the life of movie star in the 1950s.<br />
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At the beginning of World War II<span style="color: black;">--as her biographer Stephen Michael Shearer has revealed --"Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency-hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to their being inducted into the <span style="color: black;">National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014." (Wikipedia)</span> </span><br />
<br />Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-17996104970865890492016-04-16T14:22:00.000-07:002016-04-16T14:25:01.031-07:00Patricia Highsmith Semi-Lookalike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Late 1970's or early 1980s Polaroid? She looks like a *slightly* softer and more tranquil version of the termagant Highsmith. The setup here still looks good, though, for a scene in an alternative THE PRICE OF SALT. One in which the two female lovers do not get interrupted on their voluptuous journey around 1950s USA; and indeed, are still drive drive driving (with occasional stops at RV parks) into the 1970s.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-3691928517934510362016-04-03T17:42:00.001-07:002016-04-03T17:42:13.089-07:00Paris, France!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An expensive card acquired through the mail from a European dealer, but sumptuous and <i>sympathique.</i>Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-62222419161088685242016-03-23T13:01:00.000-07:002016-03-23T13:01:01.324-07:00Me With Archie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Actually, not. But tug-of-war is definitely on our agenda everyday. Or as my students would say, "on a daily basis." Argh.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-28503701485790874152016-03-11T16:19:00.001-08:002016-03-11T16:19:22.425-08:00Wished That I....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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...owned this photo but I don't. It's by Danny Wilcox Frazier, and accompanied a Clancy Martin essay in The New Republic this week about the Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz. Here Cruz is campaigning somewhere during the primaries. An extraordinary "history painting" of a photo: enlarge it as much as it will go, and feast on the dramatic details, brilliantly caught.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-1954077540647900682016-02-27T17:02:00.002-08:002016-02-27T17:02:28.734-08:00Need I Say More?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-62295512327452515002016-02-07T23:27:00.000-08:002016-02-07T23:27:00.105-08:00Super Bowl Sunday--The New NFL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-35201376497699040212016-01-24T18:32:00.000-08:002016-01-24T18:32:16.178-08:00Two Fab Seventies Polaroids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-5050840514980008162016-01-23T01:55:00.001-08:002016-01-27T16:31:14.157-08:00Jäger Beefcake<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbG1QHFqTjiHfNxnTWiWdMDTvDAsQe2LsNF2rIJvowQjWY6GzJra04m6MZmFJjqYDcHijI_yD6VEDObqJ_yI3NSCRft_vK3Y8m_w1EW4WAgU7uUakvN6rG2JQ4RHGRo7vzGsJsRJgOqA/s640/blogger-image--1162014842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLbG1QHFqTjiHfNxnTWiWdMDTvDAsQe2LsNF2rIJvowQjWY6GzJra04m6MZmFJjqYDcHijI_yD6VEDObqJ_yI3NSCRft_vK3Y8m_w1EW4WAgU7uUakvN6rG2JQ4RHGRo7vzGsJsRJgOqA/s400/blogger-image--1162014842.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
And now, from the even more sinister <b>20th</b> century.... The striped underpants are a surprising touch, plus the fact that the men here do not seem to take their no doubt impressive helmets off even when going for a swim.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-65167686202424159222015-12-30T11:54:00.000-08:002015-12-30T11:54:03.192-08:00All Things Merry and Bright<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Definitely from the Sinister Nineteenth Century Department. Time to read The Scripture.Terry Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04695519812457730281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3276738063923253093.post-21556379467059012022015-12-28T13:09:00.002-08:002015-12-28T13:09:05.479-08:00Apple-Munching She-Dweeb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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