MFA Boston show tackles “real photo” postcards

The works, which were a cutting-edge technology, come from the vast collection of Leonard Lauder.

Two young girls (perhaps twins) don white dresses and hair bows, as they hold flowers and pose, each with a raised foot, before a backdrop. Two women hold the latter, as three adults look on from behind, and a photographer kneeling in the foreground pauses from his work to look at the camera. Like Rembrandt painting himself at the easel, this photograph…