Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As., 1909
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Martín de las Escobas, Pcia. Santa Fe, 1902
Postal con autorretrato iluminado, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As., 1905
Postal con autorretrato iluminado, Josefina Oliver, Bs. As.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Bs. As., 1901.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Bs. As., 1901.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Rosario, Pcia. Santa Fe, 1906
Postal con copia, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As., 1905
Mercedes García Oliver. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As.
Catalina García Oliver. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver
Mercedes García Oliver. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As.
Josefina Oliver y Pepe Salas. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, 1906
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Rosario, Pcia. Santa Fe, 1906
Josefina Oliver y Pepe Salas. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, 1907
Josefina y Catalina Oliver. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Buenos Aires
Josefina y Catalina Oliver Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As.
Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, San Vicente, Pcia. Bs. As., 1907
Catalina Oliver e hijos. Postal con copia iluminada, Josefina Oliver, Rosario, Pcia. Santa Fe, 1907

POSTCARDS WITH HER PHOTOS

Josefina Oliver’s postcards contain a great deal of creative work. She buys postcards in photography shops, little cardboards in plain colours with their reverses ready to be written for mailing, where she sticks her best illuminated copies.

She also uses artistic emulsified papers with kitsch motifs such as painters’ palettes, rhombuses or hearts where she develops her shots and generates new framings. She assembles these works on postcards and after writing the text, she completes a self cosmos to be sent by mail.

‘On coming back home I stopped at the postcards shop in Ayacucho St, I bought plain postcards to stick photographs on and some books (…)’ Diary 4, p.070, 20 feb 1906

Josefina’s wish to show her work leads her to compose hundreds of these little works which she bestows upon her friends and relatives. Since 1901, this personal want is reinforced with the worldwide fashion of postcard exchange. These postcards have great printing quality and are half the cost of a letter.

‘(…) When the fury of collecting postcards, when my corresponsals, which were many and from all over the world, asked me for my portrait I used to send them this photo. - 1900 to 1904 – I collected more than 5 thousand postcards (…)’ Diary 18, photo 017, June 1952

Collage con copia iluminada JO ampliada, Bs. As.