Ron Jude: Postcards 1991-2006 includes 22 matte-finish color postcards in a slipcase, published by A-Jump Books, in Ithaca, New York. The photographs by this accomplished photographer and teacher include found detritis, the poetry of the eye wherever it may rove in landscape, nature and manmade environments. Shot over the past 15 years in places as culturally and geographically diverse as Italy and Louisiana, these photographs subvert tourism. Not “picture postcards” but the minutia of private experience dominate these photographs. The artist has quite an eye, and this modestly priced portfolio of images is a fine way of presenting these photos which tell a story by themselves with a little help from the “viewer”. (Ithaca, NY, A-Jump Books, 2006, $10.00).
 
—Umbrella Editions, March, 2007
About Postcards: Shot over the past fifteen years in places as culturally and geographically diverse as Italy and Louisiana, these photographs do more to foil the idea of travelogue than support it. Inverting the usual role of the "picture postcard," the images in this collection favor the minutia of private experience over generalized representations of the well-known. Through pictures of detritus—the failed, the broken, and the lame—Jude is looking for something that echoes the texture of actual experience, and the small, hidden epiphanies that reside there. —A-Jump Books
Ron Jude
Postcards 1991-2006
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