Author: FENTON, J. (PREFACE) AND ELIZABETH EDWARDS (ESSAY)
Title: We Are the People. Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips
Description: London, National Portrait Gallery. 2004, 1st edition. (ISBN: 1855145170). Ppbck, card covers, 19,5 x 25 cm. 336 pp.with 900 illustrations. The book is an exhibition catalogue and presents over 1000 postcards of ordinary people made exceptional by the lens of the camera. These images, all real photographs in postcard form, have been selected from the extensive collection of the artist, Tom Phillips, a postcard collector for a quarter of a century. In the first half of the 20th Century, the picture postcard transformed the art of portraiture from elite pastime to popular craze. Photographic equipment was cheaper, film faster, studios sprang up in every town, on every seaside promenade. In this democratic new medium, cook and chatelaine, poacher and gamekeeper, boss and labourer, manager and clerk were suddenly equal. Everyone became a postcard. VERY FINE COPY, AS NEW.

Keywords: Postcards/History/Photography/Ansichtkaarten/Anthropology 1855145170


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