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'These images are captivating visual vignettes. We may not know who the subjects are, but the postcards offer us a glimpse of their interests, their time and their world. Tom Phillips's exceptional collection gives us a fascinating chance to retrieve something of these lives.' Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London 'Tom Phillips has one of the greatest postcard collections in the world - the ultimate archive of British citizens from the turn of the century.' Martin Parr, photographer and postcard collector 'These books will fascinate anyone interested in humanity or in the contrivances of image-making. Retrieving notionally commonplace portrait photos c. 1900-50 and grouping them by reference to the supposedly merely accessory motifs they contain, Phillips reveals the ordinary as almost wondrous, its posed citizens as participants in mysterious rituals or cults. Whether bizarre, absurd, pretentious, sad or hilarious, these lost sitters are, however, presented by Phillips with the warm sympathy and open-mindedness that, reaffirming human dignity, is a hallmark of his art as a whole.' Richard Morphet, curator and postcard expert 'Picture postcards from a century ago capture unique moments in time and place and are a wonderful social history record. Tom Phillips is adept at seeking out and choosing amazingly evocative postcard images.' Brian Lund, editor, Picture Postcard Monthly
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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. Bicycles documents the great age of the safety bicycle which was the instrument of emancipation for women and freedom for men. Also we see competitive racers and pedalling toddlers. 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.
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A window on the past
15 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover
This is the first collection of vintage bicycle portrait photography to be published. It is of interest to photographers, historians and cyclists. Most people who like bicycles end up with a few photographs they pick up at flea markets of people posed with their bicycles before WWII. If you ever wanted a collection of people posing with their bicycles this small book contains 199 photographs of people with a bicycle theme. This collection of photographs has very little text, it shows people from a time when bicycles and photographs were expensive enough that just owning a bicycle and being able afford to have a picture-portrait taken signified a kind of status. Perhaps half of them are studio portraits and the rest are outdoors. All of them are posed. The pictures show children on tricycles, families on tandems, people wearing costumes, the handicapped, racers with their trophies and delivery-boys in front of shops. There is one wedding. While they are all from Great Britain the photographs appear to date from closer to WWI than WWII when both women and men wore hats. This adds to the small number of titles on bicycle photography including Bicycle by Linda Svendsen, Bicycle Messenger by Kyle Shepard (both out of print)and Velo by Klanten & Ehmann. However, they are all exercises in photo-journalism. An old photograph is a window on the past and this is certain to grow in value.
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