Fantasy Travel - Vintage People on Photo Postcards (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bodleian Library
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Tom Phillips
Foreword by:	Terry Jones
Dimensions:	190 x 175 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Paper over boards
Pages:	112
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-85124-383-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers
LSN:	1-85124-383-6
Barcode:	9781851243839

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