W e switched to our more reliable 5x7 Deardorff (circa 1950s) and used slightly newer film holders customized to accommodate postcard format film. The commissions were scheduled, premeditated and our technique adjusted. Our efforts culminated in an exhibition of 160 postcard-size palladium portraits and 5 life size archival inkjet portraits at PSG running July 23-October 4, 2010. Each commission included two signed palladium prints and 100 offset printed postcards to mail as a way to extend the project. From January to June 2010, we took commissions through the Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee to expand the project and explore this aspect of the postcard portrait genre. COMMISSIONS: Commissions have long been an integral part of American studio portraiture and the raison d'etre for the real photo postcard studio portrait of 100 years ago. Mail Art in a time when the mail itself seems like a doomed information delivery system. Postcards are delivered individually by the hand of an unknown postal worker.
The USPS counter person at the Manitowoc post office told us each piece of mail passes through up to 60 machine operations. after being stamped, imprinted, manipulated and scuffed by postal machines. We liked the idea of the postcard print migrating to the person's specific geographic location. With the nomadic quality of life we noted we often had an email address and not a mailing address. MAIL ART: Eventually we mailed each person a palladium postcard of themselves if it turned out.
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