cool book spotted: Exotic Postcards by Alan Beukers

Aloha

Saw this one at Quimby's in Chicago today and got a bit jazzed.
Wanted to hep you all to it.

Hardbound book with two hundred pages worth of reproductions of turn of the century postcards showing 'exotic' people of all types: Hindus, Native Americans, Pygmies, Zulus, and plenty of Polynesians.

Fascinating and super-exploitative documentation from a century ago.

Foreward by Theroux, whom I can take or leave... buy it for the photos...

Amazon has it for $26 (cover price: $35).

http://www.amazon.com/s/002-3893144-9320009?ie=UTF8&keywords=alan%20beukers&tag=tikiroadtrip-20&Go.x=0&index=blended&Go=Go&Go.y=0&link%5Fcode=qs

[ Edited by: tikibars 2007-05-19 23:15 ]

Looks like an interesting book. Another book, with a similar topic, is 'Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards' by Christraud Geary. This book has a 30 page chapter on the photographers and postcards in the Pacific Islands. I haven't read this book yet, but the images are quite good.

http://www.amazon.com/DELIVERING-VIEWS-GEARY-CM/dp/1560987596/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8185239-0697454?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179673658&sr=8-1

Vern

Picked the book up at the local library today.

Here's a few scans of the Oceanic postcards.

War Mask from Kouaoua, New Caledonia

Samoan Man

Samoan chief girl

Tuari Netana, Maori chief

Hawaiian Hula Dancers

Hawaiian "music girls"