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Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Hardback

Main Details

Title Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tom Phillips
Foreword by Terry Jones
SeriesPhoto Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 175
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9781851243839
ClassificationsDewey:779.092
Audience
General
Illustrations 200 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Bodleian Library
Imprint Bodleian Library
Publication Date 3 October 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument. Fantasy Travel shows people sitting proudly and playfully in studio mock-ups of aeroplanes, cars, speedboats and hot air balloons. Such modes of transport were beyond the dreams of the average person in the early twentieth century but the photographic studios allowed them to indulge wild flights of fancy and take away the resulting postcards.

Author Biography

Tom Phillips is a major British artist who lives and works in London.

Reviews

"Picture postcards from a century ago capture unique moments in time and place and are a wonderful social history record. Tom Phillips is adept at seeking out and choosing amazingly evocative postcard images."--Brian Lund, editor of Picture Postcard Monthly "These images are captivating visual vignettes. We may not know who the subjects are, but the postcards offer us a glimpse of their interests, their time, and their world. Tom Phillips's exceptional collection gives us a fascinating chance to retrieve something of these lives."--Sandy Nairne, director, National Portrait Gallery, London