Ian Phillips is an artist and a collector. All kinds of things find their way into his hands, but he's been pretty consistent at collecting vintage photographs of people in bathing suits for many years.
When people are in their bathing suits they are less constrained, more relaxed and most, if not all of the photographs are entertaining in some manner – people burying each other in the sand, virile young men performing acrobatic stunts, beauty contests…
Any of these pictures could have been taken yesterday as easily as 100 years ago.
