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Raising Frogs for $ $ $ |
The Mushroom Collector |
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Photographs by Jason Fulford, taken mostly in the Midwestern United States from 1997-98. Text by Adam Gilders. ISBN 0-9701656-0-9 Edition of 1000
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This selection of color photographs was inspired by the simultaneous feelings of sadness and humor--one interpretation being that beauty and humor can provide both antidote and a necessary companion to melancholy. The pictures were taken from 1997 to 2001 in the United States, Canada, France, Hungary, India, Iceland, China and Romania. ISBN 978-0-9701656-7-1 Edition of 3000
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The book is arranged in eight distinct chapters that can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative or all of the above. Fulford explains, "The intention of this edit and layout is to create as many relationships as possible between the pictures as well as the chapters. I like the idea of a meticulously planned-out event that remains unpredictable." The work in Raising Frogs for $$$ was selected from the photographer's personal archive, from images taken in various countries between 1997 and 2005. ISBN 978-0-9776481-1-5 Edition of 2500 |
It all started when a friend of Fulford’s gave him a stack of anonymous photographs of mushrooms, found at a flea market. The mushroom images got stuck in Fulford’s mind, like a bad song sometimes does, and they started to grow in his own work. The Mushroom Collector combines some of the original flea-market pictures with his own images and text about the project. Edition of 1000
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