We Are the People. Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips
by Fenton, J. (preface) and Elizabeth Edwards (essay)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1855145170
- ISBN 13
- 9781855145177
- Seller
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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About This Item
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004. 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. 1st edition. Ppbck, card covers. 19,5 x 25 cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller (NL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5357
- Title
- We Are the People. Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips
- Author
- Fenton, J. (preface) and Elizabeth Edwards (essay)
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1855145170
- ISBN 13
- 9781855145177
- Publisher
- National Portrait Gallery
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 19,5 x 25 cm
- Keywords
- Postcards/History/Photography/Ansichtkaarten/Anthropology
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - cultural;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller
Biblio member since 2007
Amsterdam
About Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller
Antiquarian bookseller in Amsterdam since 1990. Specializing in documentary material related to 20th century European history in the Interbellum, World War II, Weimar Republic and Third Reich
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