PostSecret Exhibition
January 5th, 2006 | by jg3 |Last night I had the pleasure of attending the PostSecret exhibition in Georgetown. Hundreds, thousands of secrets publicly displayed on postcards. Wierd, cool, public, personal. It was all kinds of things. Each postcard was an image, each image a thousand words, each one describing a journey. Through life, to realization, through the postal system, through the pile of mail, to this show.
I highly recommend it for anyone within a couple of hours drive.
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2 Responses to “PostSecret Exhibition”
By mijoy on Jan 5, 2006 | Reply
Wow, I’m jealous. I’ve been dying to go to this. Do they let you take pictures?
By earlax on Jan 5, 2006 | Reply
yes, but my pictures came out looking like the one on the website.
The postcard images are their property, so I doubt they’d let you set up your tripod and take high-res photos of ones they have hanging on the wall.
If you’ve been reading the site for a while you’ll recognize a lot of them, maybe most. Seeing the actual postcards, with the actual postmarks, though, makes it seems so real like living people sent them from all over the world. In there it isn’t just some guy’s website.
The book is for sale and the author is signing at the show.