More info at postcards.magnumphotos.com var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-31177446-2’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @postcardsfromamerica)http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/929acda9e81ff1f960bb30c802d9b6a0/tumblr_mjxmb5gHmD1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Alessandra Sanguinetti.  Obama for America Grassroots Event, Coral Gables, Florida.  Guerby Mertil Jr.  </p> <p>Meet Alessandra <strong>this Friday, March 22 from 6 pm to 8 pm </strong>at the new <a href="http://blog.leica-camera.com/">Leica</a> store on the Miracle Mile in Coral Gables.  She’ll talk about <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">Swap Shop</a> and a lot more …  Space is extremely limited, so if you’re in the Miami area please be sure to RSVP to info@leicastoremiami.com.  </p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/45793819619http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/45793819619Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:52:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9cca453edbdb204b5f319ce125245146/tumblr_mjaroyKs101qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Alec Soth.  James, Edgerton Model Railroad Club, Rochester, New York.</p> <p>Check out Alec’s post-<em><a href="http://lbmdispatch.tumblr.com/">Three Valleys</a></em> take on the pleasures of landscape on <a href="http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/blog/popsicle-8-bye-and-bye-by-charles-wright/">LBM</a>.</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/44786848055http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/44786848055Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:43:46 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f490f87b98c63886898c7bc250677886/tumblr_mixvkaTawY1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mikhael Subotzky.  Karen Michelle Wolf, Miami, Florida.  </p> <p>The first issue of the beautifully redesigned <a href="http://www.aperture.org/shop/magazine/">Aperture Magazine</a> came out yesterday.  It features work by the first six photographers we had in Florida (the rest arrived after Aperture’s press deadline) and an insightful essay about Postcards by Aperture Executive Director Chris Boot.  So check out the new <a href="http://www.aperture.org/shop/magazine/">Aperture</a> - and, to see all of our work from Florida, our very own <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">Swap Shop magazine</a>.      </p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/44223313861http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/44223313861Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:38:34 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5edc0597e94b79e3f3faa86407ccfccd/tumblr_mikw3y6cwY1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Donovan Wylie.  Citizen.  Miami, Florida.  </p> <p>See more in <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">Swap Shop</a>.  </p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43649554032http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43649554032Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:21:34 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b8932bdbe193bc5bce9f38407b14a8de/tumblr_miaoanQaJn1rw88j4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Alec Soth.  Facebook Main Campus.  Menlo Park.</p> <p>Alec is on the RV in California for his fourth LBM Dispatch - this time, he’s visiting California’s Three Valleys (Silicon, Death, and San Joaquin). As always, you can follow his trip on the <a href="http://lbmdispatch.tumblr.com/">Dispatch tumblr</a>.</p> <p>You can also <a href="http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/blog/lbm-dispatch-three-valleys/">buy a subscription</a> to the three most recent Dispatch newsprints - Upstate, Michigan, and Three Valleys - <a href="http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/blog/lbm-dispatch-three-valleys/">for $36</a>, which is a pretty amazing deal. (If you haven’t seen the Dispatches in printed format, they’re thoroughly Sothian and completely beautiful.)</p> <p>Of course, the Dispatches look even better with a copy of <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">Swap Shop</a>, featuring Alec’s heartrending pictures from Orlando.</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43561709712http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43561709712Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:36:33 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2555b463a86bcde4cd94ec469c784431/tumblr_midzea8ltr1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Paolo Pellegrin.  A young man scales a fence to evade the police in the Crescent neighborhood of Rochester, New York.</p> <p>Congratulations to Paolo Pellegrin, who won <a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2013/general-news/paolo-pellegrin?gallery=6096">second prize at the World Press Photo Awards in the General News category</a> for his story on Rochester’s Crescent neighborhood (undertaken as part of Postcards from America III).  Not that it’s a huge surprise - this is Paolo’s tenth World Press Photo award since 1995 - but we’re very pleased to show that an experiment like Postcards can support many different kinds of work, including world-class, engaged photojournalism.</p> <p>You can see Paolo’s equally stunning police-work from Miami in Swap Shop, <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">available now through the Postcards store</a>.   </p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43348354223http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/43348354223Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:49:22 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/071cc704bcb858fdefa7116f2c0c01f7/tumblr_mi4enoUqyW1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">Swap Shop Magazine Available Now!</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">For our fourth Postcards from America trip, eleven of us rolled through Florida during the two months surrounding the Presidential election.  We had no predetermined plan or agenda, just a deep curiosity about what the state would look and feel like 12 years after the disputed 2000 election that changed the course of the early 21^st century. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">After initially posting pictures “live” on our tumblr, we’ve now had a chance to reflect on our time in Florida.  Swap Shop magazine is the result:  A meditation on Florida and the American political process as places where ideas and identities are traded in, recycled, and acquired secondhand; open-air markets for consumption, garbage and reuse.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can read more and buy the magazine <a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/">here</a>.  Beautifully designed by Jason Fulford, it’s 88 pages with a 12 page insert and features the work of Bruce Gilden, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Mark Power, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alec Soth, Zoe Strauss, Mikhael Subotzky, and Donovan Wylie.  It’s beautifully printed, and it’s only 19 bucks.  That’s a lot of photographers for your money!</p> <p><a href="http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/"><span>Click here to go to the Postcards store and buy Swap Shop now!</span></a></p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/42936945415http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/42936945415Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:43:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/29fe8db94a8fc04a583835bb06a01754/tumblr_mh5o7irTA81qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Alec Soth.  Carefree Inn.  Kissimmee, Florida.</p> <p>Alec will be at <a href="http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/Calendar.html">Cranbrook </a>this Sunday, and LBM is at <a href="http://www.travisshaffer.com/index.php?/a-fair/">A Fair</a> at the University of Kansas through February 15.  All the details and some foamy installation shots at <a href="http://littlebrownmushroom.tumblr.com/">LBM</a>.</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/41398914210http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/41398914210Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:33:16 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aa7d8ab7e392e35346898fafd72c9498/tumblr_mh0e8jSz0f1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Zoe Strauss.  Mitt Romney Speaks in Florida.</p> <p>Happy Inauguration Day!  Welcome President Romney!  Wait, that didn’t happen.  Makes you think about the difference that 538 votes - those cast by 537 Floridians and 1 Supreme Court Justice - might have made in 2000.  </p> <p><span>On the other hand, why focus on 537 votes when <a href="http://felonvoting.procon.org/sourcefiles/2010_State_Level_Estimates_of_Felon_Disenfranchisement.pdf">1.5 million residents of Florida have lost the right to vote altogether</a>?   </span></p> <p>We’ve been thinking about our time in Florida, and we look forward to sharing those reflections with you this week.</p> <p>In the meantime:  Happy Inauguration Day.</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/41170047255http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/41170047255Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:09:55 -0500<p>We&#8217;ve got an announcement to make soon, but in the meantime check out this <a href="http://blog.leica-camera.com/photography/s-system/bruce-gilden-postcards-from-america-magnum-miami/">interview with Bruce Gilden about <em>Postcards</em>, underdogs, and working in color</a>.</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/40794846477http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/40794846477Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:18:52 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/617f7050a20b43598cb1f806ef5629b3/tumblr_mf2s4aDv4j1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div> <p>A man charged of assaulting and robbing a man in a wheelchair is taken into custody by a member of TRU, a special anti-robbery unit of the Miami City police. Miami, Florida.</p> <p>- Paolo Pellegrin</p> </div> <div><span><br/></span></div>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/38015483960http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/38015483960Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:01:12 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/46d11f07221b12375624c1e90e1bccb2/tumblr_mf2s0a6VFJ1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jason, a career criminal with four convictions for armed robbery, in the back of a police car in Liberty City.  Miami, Florida</p> <div></div> <div><span>- Paolo Pellegrin</span></div> <div><span><br/></span></div>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37980032675http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37980032675Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:55:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/506fb0ff0e765a46387569662bc70562/tumblr_mf0wwfYg5o1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An intoxicated man who was selling drugs is arrested after running away and fighting with the police. Miami, Florida</p> <p>- Paolo Pellegrin</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37906042984http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37906042984Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:45:50 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8290048abcf221f8536b5aa8a721b0c0/tumblr_mf0wvq08MA1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An intoxicated man who was selling drugs is arrested after running away and fighting with the police. Miami, Florida</p> <p>- Paolo Pellegrin</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37906029002http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37906029002Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:45:26 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5e98884e29b240aaca09fedb23fbb95/tumblr_meycrpR7r01qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Shirley after her synchronized swimming class, Top of the World, Clearwater, Florida</p> <p>Jim Goldberg</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37812521169http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37812521169Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:35:49 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5456e5725db5a0589e75a6a2c5ee4c61/tumblr_mev92iRCM71qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Halloween. Lincoln Road. Miami, Florida</p> <p>- Paolo Pellegrin</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37709565490http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37709565490Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:23:06 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2fb68d955bb83de335f2fe6aa723db69/tumblr_meshb76usW1qiqxjto1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Man crossing Portugal St., Top of the World, Clearwater, Florida</p> <p>Jim Goldberg</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37598021388http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37598021388Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:28:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/69eb9793825f6894b62f1bb79bd1741c/tumblr_merlbjIe7q1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mark Power</p> <p>Miami, Florida</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37550652510http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37550652510Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:57:19 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3679a0b9922c8105b7a498b516f63cbc/tumblr_meq35z8kYv1qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Backyard, Hialeah, Miami, Florida</p> <p>Jim Goldberg</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37485035032http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37485035032Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:27:34 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0ac0ca00a76f5942728e0d446a1eef5c/tumblr_mepc13dad41qiqxjto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Mark Power</p> <p>Marlins stadium. Miami, Florida</p>http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37462767499http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/post/37462767499Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:41:26 -0500