Cristina Arribas 

Cristina Arribas (Barcelona, 1973) is an architect, urban planner and lecturer in Theory and History at the Barcelona School of Architecture. She holds a PhD in Architecture and has a special interest in the visual means of representation of modernity and landscape. One of her main focuses is the postcard as an essential means of representation. She has published work on tourist images, modernity, the city, landscape representation, cinema and photography and has curated several exhibitions on postcards, of which she has an important and extensive collection. She is particularly interested in the relationship between photography and postcards, editing, colour retouching, editing, staging and all those aspects that help a photograph to become a postcard.