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A few nice humor one images I found:

Saucy British seaside postcards


Image by brizzle born and bred
image above: Newly married couple on honeymoon – saucy seaside humor British postcard 1980s.

McGill, who was known as the King of the Saucy Postcard, produced about 2,000 designs between 1904 and 1962 of which an estimated 200 million postcards were printed and sold.

However, McGill fell foul of a crackdown on the saucy postcard industry during the 1950s and was prosecuted and fined under the 1857 Obscene Publications Act in 1954.

Many postcards were destroyed by their owners during the government crackdown.

Saucy postcards, with cartoons and captions such as the one above, were once as familiar to British seaside resorts as striped deckchairs, candy floss, sticks of rock and fish ‘n’ chips.

In today’s liberal world of open frankness on sexual matters, the cartoon characters and antics of the saucy postcard era would hardly lift an eyebrow. However, back in those days of sexual repression, "It" was very much a taboo subject, considered to be the height of bad manners bordering on obscene to discuss. Saucy postcards were a breath of fresh air to some; others were disgusted and offended by them.

In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached a massive 16 million a year.

They were often bawdy in nature, making use of innuendo and double entendres and traditionally featured stereotypical characters such as vicars, large ladies and put-upon husbands, in the same vein as the Carry On films.

In the early 1950s, the newly elected Conservative government were concerned at the apparent deterioration of morals in Britain and decided on a crackdown on these postcards.

The main target on their hit list was the renowned postcard artist Donald McGill. In the more liberal 1960s, the saucy postcard was revived and became to be considered, by some, as an art form. This helped its popularity and once again they became an institution.

However, during the 1970s and 1980s, the quality of the artwork and humour started to deteriorate and, with changing attitudes towards the cards’ content, the demise of the saucy postcard occurred.

Original postcards are now highly sought after, and rare examples can command high prices at auction. The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by a publishing company called Bamforths, based in the town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England.

Despite the decline in popularity of postcards that are overtly ‘saucy’, postcards continue to be a significant economic and cultural aspect of British seaside tourism. Sold by newsagents and street vendors, as well as by specialist souvenir shops, modern seaside postcards often feature multiple depictions of the resort in unusually favourable weather conditions.

The use of saturated colour, and a general departure from realism, have made the postcards of the later twentieth century become collected and admired as kitsch.

Such cards are also respected as important documents of social history, and have been influential on the work of Martin Parr.

Day Two Hundred Thirty


Image by Dustin Diaz
230/365. Shiny Happy People ~ R.E.M. — Throw your love around

So it took a day to finally sort things from the Getty incident. Anyone still interested in that can check out that thread.

Anyhow, this toy is a pretty common guy. He rocks out in the sunlight (batteries not included)… so I’m sure he didn’t mind me taking photos with the flash (tee hee).

And believe it or not, this is pretty much straight out of the camera aside from the crop, text, and framing. That small sharpening halo is an artifact of how damn sharp this lens is.

Also, I kinda got lucky with the composition. I fired away a few since I was handholding with a locked focus (AF-L). That massive ball in the back made it seem like he’s wearing a helmet. Fun

And finally, clickity split…

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

FAMIGLIA GATTINO


Image by Zellaby
please take a look to the original one here:
www.flickr.com/photos/johnmcnab/1109696184/