Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards

by Tom Phillips

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851243593
• ISBN13: 9781851243594
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 7.8"