Editing Tall tale (section)

==In visual media==
{{Main|Exaggeration Postcards}}
Early 20th-century [[postcard]]s became a vehicle for tall tale telling in the US.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/talltales/ | title= Larger Than Life: Tall-Tale Postcards | date= 3 August 2012 | publisher = Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref><ref name=MIstory>{{cite web | url= http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/extra/2008/janfeb/talltale_postcards.html | title= Storytelling Through the Mail: Tall Tale Postcards in Michigan | publisher= Michigan History Online | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090708063731/http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/extra/2008/janfeb/talltale_postcards.html | archive-date= 2009-07-08 }}</ref> Creators of these cards, such as the prolific Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?search_type=advanced&search_field1=creator&keyword1=johnson%2C+alfred&boolean_type1=and&search_field2=&keyword2=tall-tale | publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society | title= Wisconsin historical images, Keywords: "tall tale", Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.}}</ref> and [[William H. "Dad" Martin]], usually employed [[trick photography]], including [[forced perspective]], while others painted their unlikely [[wikt:tableau|tableaus]],<ref name= MIstory/> or used a combination of painting and photography in early examples of [[Photo manipulation|photo retouching]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=44509&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dbasic%26keyword1%3DMammoth%2BStrawberries%26submit%3DSEARCH | title= Tall-tale Postcard: Mammoth Strawberries | date= December 2003 | publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society}}</ref> The common theme was [[wikt:gigantism|gigantism]]: fishing for [[leviathan]]s,<ref name= MIstory/><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?search_type=advanced&search_field1=&keyword1=exaggerated+postcards&boolean_type1=and&search_field2=&keyword2=Fishing&boolean_type2=and&search_field3=&keyword3=&subject_broad_id=&subject_broad=&decade=&genre=&genre_text=&wi_county_code=&wi_county_text=&added_within=&sort_by=date&submit_form=Search | publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society | title= Wisconsin historical images, Keywords: "tall tale", "fishing"}}</ref> hunting for<ref name= MIstory/><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?search_type=advanced&search_field1=&keyword1=exaggerated+postcards&boolean_type1=and&search_field2=&keyword2=hunting&boolean_type2=and&search_field3=&keyword3=&subject_broad_id=&subject_broad=&decade=&genre=&genre_text=&wi_county_code=&wi_county_text=&added_within=&sort_by=date&submit_form=Search | publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society | title= Wisconsin historical images, Keyword "hunting" }}</ref> or riding<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=44668&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dbasic%26keyword1%3DHomeward%2BBound%26submit%3DSEARCH | title= Homeward Bound| date= December 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=44425&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsearch_type%3Dbasic%26keyword1%3DMan%2BRiding%2BSheep%26submit%3DSEARCH | title= Man Riding Sheep (1916)| date= December 2003}}</ref> oversized animals, and bringing in the impossibly huge [[wikt:sheaf|sheaves]].<ref name= MIstory/><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?search_type=advanced&search_field1=&keyword1=exaggerated+postcards&boolean_type1=and&search_field2=&keyword2=farm+produce&boolean_type2=and&search_field3=&keyword3=&subject_broad_id=&subject_broad=&decade=&genre=&genre_text=&wi_county_code=&wi_county_text=&added_within=&sort_by=date&submit_form=Search | publisher= Wisconsin Historical Society | title= Wisconsin historical images, Keyword "hunting" }}</ref> An homage to the genre can be found on the cover of the ''[[Eat a Peach]]'' (1972) album by [[The Allman Brothers Band]].