Stuff I have been looking at for the collections brief

These postcards are from my Dad's random collection of postcards that crucially all had to feature a pier and they and are the starting point for my collections project.
The aspect of the postcards that really interest me are the colours and high saturation, which after a bit of research i found out are down to the film and the complex tri-colour carbro process. My idea was that i wanted to create a book of postcards that could be ripped out and used or they could be kept as a book.

My housemate also gave me a book by Martin Parr to look at called 'Boring Postcards'.




After looking through this book i thought i wanted to create a collection of boring postcards of leeds from photographs that i took myself. However i gave this a bit of thought and the appeal started to wear off. I think it would have been too hard to pull this idea off because the postcards in the Martin Parr book are funny because when they were created they were meant to be serious and i think this would be lost if i tried to make them funny from the beginning.

I then started to focus on how i was going to get the aesthetic look i wanted that looked as close to the 1960s/1970s seaside postcards as possible. I thought the easiest way to do this would have been to take the photos digitally and then manipulate them in photoshop. It was only after the first crit and speaking to Martin that the possibility of doing it using film came about. Martin suggested that i use colour slide film and then get it cross processes. Xpro results in unnatural and highly saturated colours, which are both at the core of what i was trying to achieve. Using film also feels more authentic and the sense of unpredictability you get when using both film and the xpro process really appeals to me.