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.
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