
Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards - Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive (Hardback)
Tom Phillips (author), Giles Waterfield (foreword)
£10.00
Hardback
112 Pages /
Published: 15/05/2011
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To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has 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 their portraits.
Weddings captures all the stages of the ceremony, with preparations, wedding vehicles and their various casts of people in lively scenes at church and home.
Each book contains 200 images chosen with the eye of a leading artist from a visually rich vein of social history. Their covers will also feature a thematically linked painting, especially created for each title, from Tom Phillips' signature work, A Humument.
Publisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851243693
Number of pages: 112
Weight: 446 g
Dimensions: 190 x 175 x 16 mm
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