Fantasy Travel: Vintage People On Photo Postcards (Photo Postcards From The Tom Phillips Archive),Used

Fantasy Travel: Vintage People On Photo Postcards (Photo Postcards From The Tom Phillips Archive),Used

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Brand: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Library asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards. These encompass 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 portraits of themselves. Each of the books in the series contains two hundred images chosen from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers also feature thematically linked paintings, specially created for each title, from Phillipss signature work, A Humument.Fantasy Travel compiles postcards of people sitting playfully in studio mockups of airplanes, cars, speedboats, and hot air balloons. Such modes of travel were beyond the means of most people at the time, and photographic studios allowed them to indulge their flights of fancyand take away the resulting postcard.Each of these unique and visually stunning books give a rich glimpse of forgotten times and will be greatly valued by art and history lovers alike.

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