Will Write Soon, David Thomson

The hundreds of photographs gathered in Will Write Soon, lead us into the meanderings of day-to-day life in the towns and countryside of North America at the turn of the 20th century. Real photographic postcards (RPPCs) are hybrid images, halfway between traditional photographs and postcards. The original prints were not mass produced but real artisanal photographs produced from silver gelatin negatives developed in chemical baths. On the back, like traditional postcards, there is a space to put a stamp and an address, as well as a few words. Sending an image from home was a practice that enjoyed extraordinary popularity from 1905 to the late 1930s, particularly in the rural regions of America’s heartland.

Text by Luce Lebart.

The Archive of Modern Conflict is an organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of vernacular photographs, objects, artefacts, curiosities, and ephemera. Founded in 1991, the archive began as a collection of photographs relating to war and conflict but has since expanded its remit to become the vast and thematically diverse repository it is today.

Published by Archive of Modern Conflict and GwinZegal
Softcover
184 pages
240 x 170 mm
ISBN 9791094060452