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Biography: Jason Blank, America’s Most Prolific Postcard Photographer

Jason Blank’s postcards celebrate the wonder and invention of the landscape, drawing on everything from early pictorial photography to German Romantic painting. From local post offices to tourist information centers to airport newspaper kiosks, Blank’s grand-guignolesque sensibility deepens our complex relationship to nature. Despite a dwindling need for postcards, Blank continues to shoot San Francisco, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Montreal, and Vancouver over and over again, with a passion both terrifying and sublime. He also has an obsessive interest in folk culture, and his predilection for “the exotic” seamlessly combines the racist traditions of early photography, Romanticism, and postcard photography. Blank, of course, also considers himself a supremely individual creator and uses a drone to shoot landmarks from a high viewpoint and transcendent common experience to reach deeper spiritual truths or something.