New Releases by Jason Fulford

View artworks from the Whitney Museum's esteemed collection in a whole new way - an interactive invitation to explore and discover Unfold pages, lift flaps, gaze into mirrors, and interact with art like never before. Inspired by the many ways that art can be viewed and experienced, this book encourages children to spend time with a curated selection of fine art from the Whitney collection - and to dig deeper and consider all angles. Each artwork is showcased with a novelty mechanism and caption, for curious hands and wondering eyes.

Dig through the leaf pile in this collage-inspired book with see-through pages Readers explore the concept of layering and collage with this interactive exercise in composition. Each clear acetate page features a single element in the leaf pile, though some are not leaves at all! As readers turn the pages, the leaf pile is deconstructed piece by piece on the right side, and reconstructed on the left. Younger readers will enjoy the seek-and-find aspect of the hidden objects, while older readers might experiment by adding their own images between the pages. A key at the back provides the names of each kind of leaf shown. Inspired by the Whitney Museum's approach to looking at art, these books provide a new way to look at the world. Colors are brighter than they appear - printed in pure Pantones. Ages 2-4

Jason Fulford: Contains 3 Books is a silver foil-stamped box that, appropriately enough, contains three books by photographer Jason Fulford (born 1973): 'I Am Napoleon', 'Mild Moderate Severe Profound', 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.'

"This Equals That ... takes viewers on a whimsical journey, while introducing them to the fundamentals of visual literacy and teaching them associative thinking"-- Aperture learning guide.

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.

"Issue 28 is an edition of 1000 hand-numbered ceramic lottery balls. One ball contains a genuine diamond. The other 999 each have a cubic zirconia inside. The balls were made in Oakland, CA by Atelier Dion. Caitlyn Galloway hand-painted each one." -- Publisher's description.

"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 people and places 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 United States, Canada, Italy, Greece, the Czech Republic, Poland, South Korea, Japan, Hungary, India, Bermuda and Germany."--Photographer's website, http://www.jasonfulford.com/jf_books.html, viewed on June 25, 2014

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.

"A game, a series of essays, an abstract visual storybook...all of the above? The design of Jason Fulford's third photobook is rigid and deliberate, while its meaning is flexible. '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 his personal archive, taken between 1997 and 2005 in various countries"--

The inner thoughts, struggles and insights of three young, innovative graphic designers-Jason Fulford, Peter Buchanan-Smith and Leanne Shapton-are explored here. Using the word "spine" as its theme, the book examines the worlds of publishing and self-publishing from the perspective of the graphic designer. Leanne Shapton, an illustrator, graphic designer and publisher, was art director for the Arts and Life section of the National Post.

short stories by eigth authors, drawings by twenty-seven artists

From J & L comes these black and white photos of real people, dancing. Any of them could have been your sister's friend in high school or beyond.