Greetings From Brazil - Brazilian State Capitals in Postcards and Souvenir Albuns
Carlos Cornejo, João Emilio Gerodetti
This journey will take us back in time, to the so-called "Golden Era" of the postcard in the first decades of the 20th century. Brazil´s natural beauty is known to us all - the rivers, mountains, forests, and beaches. Postcards have shown these places, and many are now famous around the world - Pão de Açúcar, the Amazon River, the Northeast coast. Yet many marvelous images of this immense and diverse quasi-continent that is Brazil have not graced postcards. Many of the locations featured in thisbook have changed over time, as structures that value beauty more than function are replaced by others in which the opposite is true. It is important to acknowledge the photographers and publishers of earlier eras, many of them unknown, whose meritand artistic talent have given us these postcards and albums, which today are the best images we have of Brazil´s historic cities.