KATE BUSH — Anabas AP156 postcard, 1986

Published by Anabas Products, England, in 1986, following the international success of Hounds of Love and during the release of The Whole Story. By this point, KATE BUSH had established a form of pop authorship extending across composition, production, choreography, costume and film, constructing visual worlds inseparable from the music itself.

The postcard performs a simpler operation. Narrative, movement and theatrical context are removed, leaving the familiar language of mid-1980s celebrity photography: white shirt, glossy makeup, studio lighting and an approachable gaze. One of British pop’s most self-directed image-makers is reformatted as a commercially distributable portrait.

KATE BUSH appears without album, performance or fictional character. Portrait to one side; catalogue number and postal apparatus to the other. A complex artistic identity prepared for uncomplicated circulation.

Colour offset-printed postcard on semi-gloss card, 12 × 17 cm. Studio portrait to recto; divided postal back with Anabas logo, catalogue number AP156, copyright and printing details to verso. Condition: very good; unused, with light edge and corner wear, minor surface marking and a faint mark to the reverse consistent with age.

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