中文简介：

这套明信片颂扬了人类与欧洲伟大山脉的关系。从拿着粗绳轻松爬过裂缝的戴着圆礼帽的男子，穿过镀金时代的大酒店和雪橇，到现代主义的山顶餐厅和缆车站，展示了人类在一百多年里如何体验景观和休闲的不同方式。阿尔卑斯山的背后是对人类与自然关系的严肃审视，以及人类是如何利用和滥用自然界的美景的。明信片穿越了时间和空间，带着来自人类过去的信息。但是，就像夏日烤焦的回忆一样，它们不一定与现实相符。

作者总是将现实与假象结合起来，创造出梦幻般的空间，在这个世界里，天空永远是蓝色的，松树永远灿烂，永远有大量新鲜的雪。

这些滑冰者、滑雪者、雪橇手和圣伯纳德人将使山地爱好者感到惊喜，让他们在任何高海拔的地方度过假期。

英文简介：

VINTAGE ALPINE POSTCARDS celebrates our relationship with Europe's great mountain range. These dispatches from the Alps take us from men in bowler hats with stout ropes nonchalantly crawling over crevasses, through the gilded age of grand hotels and sleigh rides, to the modernist concrete infrastructure of mountaintop restaurants and cable-car stations - framing the changing the way we've experienced landscape and leisure over more than a hundred years. Underlying the Alpenkitsch is a serious examination of our relationship to nature and how we have used and abused the beauties of the natural world.

Postcards travel through time as well as space, they arrive with messages from our former selves. But, like sun-burnished memories of holidays past, they do not necessarily correspond to reality.

Postcard makers have always combined reality with artifice to conjure fantastic spaces, worlds in which the sky is always blue, the pine trees resplendent and there is always plenty of fresh powder.

These skaters, skiers, sledgers and St Bernards will surprise and delight mountain aficionados, transporting them to a high altitude holiday wherever they are.