Women & Hats: Vintage People on Photo Postcards (Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive)
Foreword By Philip Treacy
Hardback: 112 pages
Publication Date: 2011
Publisher: The Bodleian Library
ISBN-10: 9781851243624
ISBN-13: 978-1851243624
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. Women & Hats explores the remarkable range in the world of millinery from outrageous Edwardian creations to the inventive austerities of the Second World War. This 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.