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  Media for remembering: Postcards

 Since 1875 (a few years after their invention) printed postcards could be mailed with reduced postage worldwide, superseeding the photoprints tourists used to by in the decades before.

 Postcards show "sights", so most postcards look just like the photos in travel brochures ("Tourism is the industry where its production is identical with its advertising." (Enzensberger)).

 The stages of the development of tourism can be found in the postcards too: From early plain reporting of the favorable views of a place to longing for the bygone times in nostalgic and artistic postcards to self-mocking postcards about the expected tourist experience (multiple-choice-postcards, "Berlin by night"-All-black-postcards)

 A large proportion of postcards are not bought to send them off, but to keep as idealized portraits of the places visited, with less intrusion of possible real-life disturbances then in photos taken by the tourists themselves.

 Contact: wolfgang.arlt@fh-stralsund.de  Office: 1/132, Tel. (03831) 45 6961