
Fantasy Travel
Vintage People on Photo Postcards
Tom Phillips(Author)
Bodleian Library (Publisher)
Published on 3. October 2012
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-1-85124-383-9 (ISBN)
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85124-383-9 (9781851243839)
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Persons
Tom Phillips is a major British artist who lives and works in London.