Help With Postcards ... Again

wolf63 | 11:46 Sun 30th Jun 2019 | ChatterBank

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Does anybody know the name given to the postcards that depicted 'real' people in the street?

I think that the photographer took the picture of passing persons and turned it into a postcard for some financial reward.

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Khandro

There was the Frenchman Robert Doisneau, but some of his candid photos were actually stage-managed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+doisneau+photographer&oq=doisneau+photographer&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.17322j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Mamyalynne

I imagine they'd fall into the category of Photographic cards Wolf

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/photography/History-of-Postcards.html

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Khandro
The ones I have are not as artistic looking as those.

Mamy
I will have a look at all the info in you link. I dream postcards.

Thanks to both of you, the postcards are never going to make millions for Oxfam but every little helps.
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