Redakteur und Journalist Pablo Iglesias Maurer hat sich einen Haufen Postkarten mit Bildern idyllischer American Dream-Szenarien wie hübsche Häuser mit adrett gekleideten Nachbarn, Schwimmbäder voller schöner Menschen, Picknick im Grünen heute unter die Lupe genommen und die Orte in der Gegenwart besucht. Die hübschen Häuser sind zerfallen, die schönen Menschen und ihre adrett gekleideten Nachbarn sind schon lange weg und das Picknick würde ich in dem vergammelten Zustand auch nicht mehr essen. Mehr davon findet ihr hier...
I score a cache of old postcards from the Poconos and Catskills on eBay, the sort that end up in family albums, stuck in some box in the attic. "Our Honeymoon." In idyllic scenes at Penn Hills, The Homowack Lodge, Grossinger's, and a fourth resort in the Poconos which we aren't identifying, vacation-goers and honeymooners frolic in the mountains.They have a surreal quality. Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you." It feels a bit like social media does sometimes, where you'll snap a photo of some vista, sometimes to bring those you care about a bit closer to you. And like social media, the postcards manage to be a little impersonal: "I didn't quite care enough to write a letter." It's analog Foursquare, a non-digital check-in.
Over the past few years, I've gone back to the places in the postcards.
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