Kasmin's Postcards - Americana

How vividly these cards, mostly homemade, although some are by professional photographers, show a way of life and work in the vast territories of the ‘States’. Loners and assemblies, families and cities, stand for a new sort of life – of swift changes of status, adhoc structures, delight in acquisition as well as valour in deprivation. And how real is the love of the gigantic or, anyway, ‘the biggest’, and the need to show one’s bond with the national flag, and to take up ‘the new’. Of course, this is a picture, mostly, of the U.S. before the depression of the 1930s, and the future is still a shining reward. Energy and willpower will do. A few sorry people remain in the shade, so included is some cruel fun.