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Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards
by Phillips, Tom
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 1851243593
- ISBN 13
- 9781851243594
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Oxford UK: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Sepia pictures throughout. 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 book 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. Readers, as its title suggests, shows people reading (or pretending to read) a wide variety of material, from the Bible to Film Fun, either in the photographer’s studio, in their own home, or on vacation on the beach. 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. Record # 352614
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352614
- Title
- Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards
- Author
- Phillips, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1851243593
- ISBN 13
- 9781851243594
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford UK
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Photography, Readers, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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