FANTASY TRAVEL: Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Book number: 92660 Product format: Hardback Author: TOM PHILLIPS

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Our dear late friend ex-Python Terry Jones in his foreword says 'Did they imagine, as they took their poses, that their friends and families would think they had really flown in an aeroplane or a balloon or that they had actually owned an automobile?' Passengers on photographs travelling First Class, driving smart motorcars and motorcycles, with a backdrop of a deck of a ship, one of which looks suspiciously like the Titanic (plate 197), a couple photographed in the dashing speedboat on page 7, a jolly house party deciding to improvise a charabanc from dustbin lids and bits of wood! And he continues 'Why on earth did people have their photographs taken on the beach sitting astride a cut-out donkey?' (plate 58). In papier-mâché planes they brave the clouds or row through a painted sea in half a boat - the revelries of travel in the early years of the 20th century could briefly be realised in the dream factory of the photographer's studio and permanently recorded in the form of a photo postcard. Stern looking couples in the basket of a balloon in a studio in Blackpool, and aboard flying machines in Weston-Super-Mare and Southend, the sometimes huge caricature faces show the joie de vivre and sense of fun with captions like First Stop Berlin. 204 sepia postcards reproduced to the best possible quality, a truly nostalgic step back in time from this Oxford University Bodleian Library publication.

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