"Stunningly up-to-the-minute large-format photographs filled with
fond ironies...The post card photographers capture the sort of
bright, color-saturated period detail you might expect...by turns
achingly sincere and unwittingly goofy."
The New Yorker (May 19,2003)"Just look at the candy-bright hues in
John Hinde's delicious collection of vintage postcards of
Butlin's...best of all is the romance of the ballroom pictures. Are
you dancing? We are." 'Hot Books' Elle "Long viewed only as a
master of kitsch Hinde is now recognised, albeit posthumously, as a
peerless social documentarian. Dazzling in their their colour
intensity and strange clarity.... Visionary, Wonderful."
Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, London"Extraordinary...the combination
of aesthetics and promotion produced something that bypasses
documentary and approaches an arresting British surrealism."
David Jays, Financial Times"These phenomenal photographs...a
cacophony of colour...Despite and because of their artifice, John
Hinde's picture postcards are endlessly fascinating, exposing
social trends, sartorial aberrations and a particular photographic
vision. A delightful book."
The Art Book (June 2003)"Wonderfully stylized...Check the
prodigious use of Adidas three-stripe! Marvel at the tiki dicor
blow-out at Butlin's Skegness Beachcomber bar! Remark on just how
weird pre-Thatcherite Britain really was!"
The Face "Enchanting and surreal" Vogue Magazine
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