Photographic Postcards and Visual Urban Landscape

Arreola, Daniel D.; Burkhart, Nick

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.31.7.885

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“…Arreola and Burkhart identified "perceived limited extent and availability of historic imagery" (Arreola & Burkhart, 2010) as a barrier to use of this method. Sometimes the historical images the researcher would like to use are simply unavailable.…”

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“…Additionally, Pollak (2015) found that personal photographic collections among her rural population had been compromised by both poor access to the technology due to prohibitive costs, and by house fires which were a common occurrence in past decades. Further, identification of and access to large or significant private collections can be difficult (Arreola & Burkhart, 2010).…”

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Visual research in LIS: Complementary and alternative methods

Pollak

2017

Library & Information Science Research

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Abstract:Although visual methods are emerging as a valuable and versatile tool in qualitative social studies research, confusion around terminology, options, and best practices persists. Consequently, LIS scholars who wish to employ innovative visual approaches in their research face barriers to discovering and deciding which visual options best suit their goals. Based on a review of the literature, this article identifies and describes the scope of participatory and nonparticipatory visual methods currently in use in the social sciences, with particular attention paid to LIS contexts. While visual methods bring clear benefits to qualitative research in terms of data quality, modes of expression, and alternate perspectives, challenges remain, including logistic issues of implementing visual study designs and ethical considerations.

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Section: Limited Availabilitymentioning

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Visual research in LIS: Complementary and alternative methods

Pollak

2017

Library & Information Science Research

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“…Scholars also use repeat photography to study cultural landscape change at a variety of time scales and in a variety of settings. Daniel Arreola and Nick Burkhart () studied urban landscapes of the Mexican‐American border, while Wyckoff () explored road corridors in Montana. Peter Goin's work employs a broader methodological approach by considering the social context of the photographs equally as important as what is actually visible in the photographs (2001).…”

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Historical Landscape Change in Yellowstone National Park: Demonstrating the Value of Intensive Field Observation and Repeat Photography

Meyer

Youngs

2018

Geographical Review

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Although transportation and outdoor recreation are well‐recognized aspects of national parks, few studies have explored these aspects from the perspective of human geography as a means of analyzing historical landscape change. This paper offers an innovative synthesis of methods for studying cultural landscape change over time through a case study of the historical geography of transportation, tourism, and outdoor recreation along the Howard Eaton Trail (HET) in Yellowstone National Park. We conducted research through a field course that combined repeat photography, archival research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and traditional field methods. Results indicate that a combination of repeat photography and other methods can create an effective means of evaluating cultural landscape change; even short field courses provide opportunities for students and faculty to conduct collaborative research that provides powerful, multidimensional, situated‐learning experiences; and repeat photography creates datasets that may benefit future research and teaching.

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“…In common with most other tourist destinations, postcards traditionally played an important role in the Mexican border towns, and since the border created tourism there, it is little wonder that many of the images depicted in the postcards from these communities traditionally have been the border itself (Weigl, 2000;Arreola, 2001Arreola, , 2017Arreola, , 2019Arreola & Burkhart, 2010;Pearson, 2016). According to Vanderwood and Samponaro (1988), postcards were the medium by which the American public learned about, and created images of, the Mexican border towns in the early twentieth century.…”

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Borderscapes and tourismscapes: The place of postcards in Mexican border town tourism

Timothy¹

2020

Geogr. Pol.

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Since the early 1900s, Mexico’s northern border towns became important tourism destinations, receiving more foreign tourists than any other areas of Mexico. Historically, postcards followed the development of tourism in the borderlands, depicting unique border-oriented tourismscapes and life in general, and establishing an iconic image of the border as a rowdy, promiscuous and decadent location where Americans could spend their holidays abroad and participate in tourisms of vice. Until the 2000s, tourism in the US-Mexico border zone was overwhelmingly leisure oriented, and the proliferation of postcards illustrated that fact. Today, there are few postcards left and the ones that do remain are less focused on the border itself, as they once were; instead, they focus on the broader community with less emphasis on the borderline. Changes in border tourism from leisure pursuits to medical tourism and alcohol consumption, growing security concerns, and the proliferation of mobile phones and social media have almost entirely eliminated postcard use as a souvenir and marker of regional tourism identity in the US-Mexico borderlands.

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Photographic Postcards and Visual Urban Landscape

Cited by 26 publications

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Visual research in LIS: Complementary and alternative methods

Visual research in LIS: Complementary and alternative methods

Historical Landscape Change in Yellowstone National Park: Demonstrating the Value of Intensive Field Observation and Repeat Photography

Borderscapes and tourismscapes: The place of postcards in Mexican border town tourism

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