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"Each time I looked at the mushroom pictures, I noticed something new. In the meantime, the
new set of pictures was finding its own identity." Jason Fulford, from his book, The Mushroom Collector, published by The Soon Institute.
On Saturday, March 26, the Dexter Sinister "Sometime Bookshop and Ofttime Maker of Projects" space, run by Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, was turned into a darkroom-for-a-day in support of a project by Jason Fulford—one of several art workshops in Fulford's itinerant Mushroom Collector series. read the full post
Published by J&L Books. Text by Jean Conner. Photographs by Jason Fulford.
Artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner’s (1933–2008) mobility was severely limited for the last five years of his life, when he rarely left the San Francisco home he shared with his wife, Jean. To aid in his physical navigation of its spaces, he worked with assistants to install a succession of solid brass handles in each and every room--surrounding the stove, down the boat-like stairwell, inside the recesses of the bedroom closet. At last count, the handles, a labyrinth of critical support, numbered 163.
Still in situ after his death in 2008, the handles are arguably Conner’s last great work--at once physical and metaphysical, fragmentary and elusive, elegant and anonymous. Together, they draft the ghost architecture of Conner’s final years, transforming the pedestrian into something altogether different.
Will Brown is a collaborative project founded by Lindsey White, Jordan Stein and David Kasprzak. Formerly based in a San Francisco storefront, Will Brown’s main objective is to manipulate the structures of exhibition-making as a critical practice. Will Brown recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita.
Jason Fulford: Contains 3 Books is a silver foil-stamped box that, appropriately enough, contains three books by photographer Jason Fulford (born 1973): Mild Moderate Severe Profound, I Am Napoleon and &&. The culmination of three years and 15 countries’ worth of travel around the world undertaken by Fulford as a Guggenheim Fellow, the photographs in these three volumes receive Fulford’s trademark elliptical, evocative sequencing, interspersed with texts that alternately explain and confound.
I Am Napoleon begins with a prefatory note that can be taken as emblematic of the project as a whole: “I think any book or picture or composition of any sort, once out into the world, so to say, produces a different effect on each person who seriously tries to follow it. I certainly do not think that the author of it has any monopoly on its interpretation.”
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 3 vols, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 216 pgs / 88 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/25/2016 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 130
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789081058476TRADE List Price: $60.00 CDN $79.00
AVAILABILITY Out of stock
STATUS: Out of stock
Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo de Rita.
As photographer Jason Fulford recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford’s gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms--unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for some mycological studies. Fulford’s art photographs--aside from his well-known book Dancing Pictures, which depicted people getting down to their favorite songs--are usually of staid, quasi-mute objects: a smashed Dorito chip overrun with ants, two bronzed doorknobs spooning, the blank back of a street sign. Yet these 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 mushroom pictures with his own images and text by the artist about the project.
Signed and numbered limited edition of 50. Each copy comes with one of ten 8x10-inch Analog C-prints signed (and printed) by the artist. Fulford's signature appears upon the artwork enclosed in the book, as well as upon the page inside the book where that image is published.
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 196 pgs / 115 color / signed & numbered edition of 50.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2010 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: ASON 00 N
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781935202561SDNR30 List Price: $250.00 CDN $275.00
AVAILABILITY Out of stock
STATUS: Out of stock
Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.
Published by Aperture. By Jason Fulford, Tamara Shopsin.
Aimed at children ages five and up, this clever and surprising picture book by artists and collaborators, Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin, takes young viewers on a whimsical journey while teaching them associative thinking and visual language, as well as colors, shapes and numbers. Through a simple narrative and a rhythmic sequence of photographs, the book generates multiple meanings, making the experience of reading the book interactive--parent and child must ask questions and come up with their own answers, drawing on the child’s imagination. Each spread presents a new relationship that changes and shifts as the book unfolds, with the last picture relating again to the first, forming a circle. Through playful and inspired sequencing, everyday scenes are transformed into a game of pairs, enjoyable for adults and children alike. Jason Fulford (born 1973) is a photographer and cofounder of the nonprofit J&L Books. He is a contributing editor at Blind Spot and a frequent lecturer at universities. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010) and Hotel Oracle (2013). Tamara Shopsin (born 1979) is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Good, Time, Wired and Newsweek. She is the author of Mumbai New York Scranton and designer of 5 Year Diary. She is also a cook at her family’s restaurant, Shopsin’s, in New York.
PUBLISHER Aperture
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/30/2014 No longer our product
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PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781597112888TRADE List Price: $19.95 CDN $25.00
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita. Text by Jason Fulford.
”My neighbor June believes in Zeus” is the arresting opening sentence of Jason Fulford’s latest photo book. At once humorous and full of reverence, Hotel Oracle is a sustained visual meditation on the cosmos--what constitutes it, what its future might be and how to reconcile the world of the supernatural with the world of the 99-cent store. Fulford’s photos of everyday scenes and people search out the clues and signs of the prophetic and the numinous, readily mingling them with the banal and the preposterous. The pictures in Hotel Oracle were taken in the US, Canada, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Hungary, India, Bermuda and Germany. Fulford is a photographer, cofounder of J&L Books and a contributing editor to Blind Spot magazine. His books include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $ $ $ (2006) and The Mushroom Collector (2010). Limited stock available.
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/30/2014 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 83
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789081058452TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $87.00
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita.
This publication reissues a beloved photobook classic—acknowledged as such by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in the third volume of The Photobook: A History—that has been out of print since the hardcover edition was published in 2010. As photographer Jason Fulford (born 1973) recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford's gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms—unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for some mycological studies. Fulford's art photographs (aside from his well-known book Dancing Pictures, which depicted people getting down to their favorite songs) are usually of staid, quasi-mute objects: a smashed Dorito chip overrun with ants, two bronzed doorknobs spooning, the blank back of a street sign. Yet these 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 mushroom pictures with his own images and text by the artist about the project.
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs / 115 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2014 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 97
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789081058469TRADE List Price: $25.00 CDN $34.50
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita.
”My neighbor June believes in Zeus” is the arresting opening sentence of Jason Fulford’s latest photo book. At once humorous and full of reverence, Hotel Oracle is a sustained visual meditation on the cosmos--what constitutes it, what its future might be and how to reconcile the world of the supernatural with the world of the 99-cent store. Fulford’s photos of everyday scenes and people search out the clues and signs of the prophetic and the numinous, readily mingling them with the banal and the preposterous. The pictures in Hotel Oracle were taken in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Hungary, India, Bermuda and Germany. Fulford is a photographer, cofounder of J&L Books and a contributing editor to Blind Spot magazine. His books include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $ (2006) and The Mushroom Collector (2010).
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2013 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 97
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789081058445TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $75.00
Photographer Jason Fulford’s Mushroom Collection project began with a set of photographs of wild mushrooms found at a flea market. These anonymous photographs inspired Fulford to create his own collection of photographs, publications, sculptures and performances, culminating in a final exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and this accompanying catalogue. In the exhibition, the original found photographs are displayed alongside Fulford’s own photographs and videos. The show continues through the museum’s other galleries, where Fulford spread additional mushrooms to interact with works in the permanent collection. In a similar spirit, the catalogue invites readers to curate interventions with works from the MIA’s permanent collection by providing color reproductions of Fulford’s photographs--bound into the book on perforated stamp sheets--that can be affixed on the following pages according to the reader’s preference. Limited stock available.
PUBLISHER Minneapolis Institute of Arts
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 24 pgs / 30 color / 16 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/31/2011 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 115
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780980048483TRADE List Price: $25.00 CDN $30.00
Published by The Soon Institute. Edited by Lorenzo de Rita.
As photographer Jason Fulford recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford’s gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms--unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer, apparently as notes for some mycological studies. Fulford’s art photographs--aside from his well-known book Dancing Pictures, which depicted people getting down to their favorite songs--are usually of staid, quasi-mute objects: a smashed Dorito chip overrun with ants, two bronzed doorknobs spooning, the blank back of a street sign. Yet these 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 mushroom pictures with his own images and text by the artist about the project.
PUBLISHER The Soon Institute
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 196 pgs / 115 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/30/2010 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 73
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9789081058421TRADE List Price: $85.00 CDN $100.00
Crushed is Jason Fulford's second book. This selection of color photographs was inspired by the contrast in the feelings of sadness and humor--one interpretation being that beauty and humor can provide both antidote and a necessary companion to melancholy. These pictures were taken from 1997 to 2001 in the United States, Canada, France, Hungary, India, Iceland, China and Romania.
Jason Fulford has arranged his third collection of photographs into eight distinct chapters that can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative or all of the above. "The intention of this edit and layout," Fulford explains, "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. Fulford's photographs have been used on book covers by Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Terry Eagleton, Ha Jin and many others. His work frequently appears in Harper's and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and Scranton, PA, and is a cofounder of J&L Books.
Jason Fulford: Contains 3 Books
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector, Limited Edition
This Equals That
Jason Fulford: Hotel Oracle
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector
Jason Fulford: Hotel Oracle
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collection
Jason Fulford: The Mushroom Collector
Jason Fulford: Crushed
Jason Fulford: Raising Frogs for $ $ $