Name: Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards
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Author: Tom Phillips
ISBN: 9781851243839

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Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tom Phillips

Publisher

Bodleian Library

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

19.1 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN

1851243836

ISBN13

9781851243839

Synopsis "Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards"

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 Phillips's signature work, A Humument. Fantasy Travel compiles postcards of people sitting playfully in studio mock-ups 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 fancy--and 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.

Tom Phillips

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He is a journalist and editor at Full Fact, the leading fact-checking company in the UK. Previously, he was the editorial director at BuzzFeed UK, where he perfectly balanced his time between reporting on very important issues… and making jokes. He studied History and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

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