New Releases by Jason Fulford

Jason Fulford?s latest book is a vibrant riff on conceptual artist Sol LeWitt?s 1977 publication PhotoGrids. Lots Of Lots transforms the seemingly quotidian objects captured by Fulford in nearly seven hundred photographs into an evocative collection of interconnected and overlapping forms. Employing a 3x3 format with nine square images on each page, Fulford groups his photographs by idiosyncratic features such as colour palette, slogans, distinctive shadows, and geometric shape. Untethered by location, style, or time, they move between coherence and collision in reflection of the varying order and disorder of the world. An empty laundrette, a lone park bench, and a cascading waterfall are among the many sights that find new resonance in Fulford?s wry and illuminating compositions, revealing beauty among endless production and consumption.

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

A colours book with no colours - instead, die-cuts to peek through and find them yourself This introduction to colours integrates the reader''s surroundings into carefully considered die-cut silhouettes, providing children the space to visually experiment. Readers will gaze around the room through a cockerel-shaped hole in search of something red, through a sun-shaped hole for something yellow, through squiggly worms for something pink. Designed for the youngest readers, this sturdy board book features 12 die-cuts made to flip and carry on a colour-seeking mission. Inspired by the Whitney Museum''s approach to looking at art, these books provide a new way to look at the world.

A colors book with no colors ? instead, die-cuts to peek through and find them yourself This introduction to colors integrates the reader''s surroundings into carefully considered die-cut silhouettes, providing children the space to visually experiment. Readers will gaze around the room through a rooster-shaped hole in search of something red, through a sun-shaped hole for something yellow, through squiggly worms for something pink. Designed for the youngest readers, this sturdy board book features 12 die-cuts made to flip and carry on a color-seeking mission. Inspired by the Whitney Museum''s approach to looking at art, these books provide a new way to look at the world.

What color is an apple? A dog? Grass? Young readers will be amazed by the range of possibilities What color is a banana? It can be at least 25 different shades, according to this artful swatchbook of versatile subjects. An inversion of the way we typically look at color, this book challenges readers'' predispositions towards using a particular crayon for a particular object. 11 items are each presented alongside a grid of color ranges: the "apple" page features yellows, greens, and reds; the "egg" page a range of greens to grays; even "grass" is surprising, with suggestions of pink. The read-along text is playful and philosophical, poetic and factual… all towards expanding readers'' assumptions. Inspired by the Whitney Museum''s approach to looking at art, these books provide a new way to look at the world. Created for ages 2-4 years

What colour is an apple? A dog? Grass? Young readers will be blown away by the range of possibilities What colour is a banana? It can be at least 25 different shades, according to this artful swatchbook of versatile subjects. An inversion of the way we typically look at colour, this book challenges readers'' predispositions towards using a particular crayon for a particular object. 11 items are each presented alongside a grid of color ranges: the "apple" page features yellows, greens, and reds; the "egg" page a range of greens to grays; even "grass" is surprising, with suggestions of pink. The read-along text is playful and philosophical, poetic and factual... all towards expanding readers'' assumptions. Inspired by the Whitney Museum''s approach to looking at art, these books provide a new way to look at the world.

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.''

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

"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.

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.

"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.