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Wurstelprater in October
New Public Collectors publication! Available for $9.00 here.
Public Collectors publication #81 takes a trip to an amusement park in Vienna just days before many of the attractions closed for the season. From the back cover:
When the Vienna Art Book Fair’s Director Marlene Obermayer invited the publishing imprint I co-run, Half Letter Press, to participate in the 2023 edition of the event, she generously booked a hotel room for me. Last time the fair was held in 2019, the hotel was a short stroll to the fair. This time it was about a 25 minute walk. She explained, “Its not the same like last time but also a really nice one (next to the famous PRATER).” I wondered why I had never heard of the Prater and meant to look it up before my trip. In the frenzy of packing books, I never got around to that. Instead I found out when I arrived.
Founded in 1766, the Prater includes a massive amusement park (Wurstelprater) filled with dozens of garish rides, an enormous Ferris wheel, tests of strength and skill, bizarre sculptures and gnarly ride facades covering every surface, and a variety of restaurants and other delights. You don’t have to pay to get in—there’s just a fee for whatever rides and games you want to enjoy. You can walk through the park any time, including before it opens, which I did on the way to and from the fair every morning and evening. At night it’s a whole other reality with dazzling lights, pounding music, and rides whipping bodies in every direction, testing any visitor’s ability to hold in their wurst. As one YouTube video-maker commented, the Prater “feels like a carnival on steroids.”
These photos were taken in the third week of October, just days before most of the rides would shut down for the season. The Wurstelprater is a fully immersive experience that could never be fully documented in all of its countless details. Anyone thinking this booklet might ruin the surprise of visiting for the first time should know that I have barely scratched the surface.
— Marc Fischer / Public Collectors
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Quais de Seine, Paris
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Dazed
A photo zine paying homage to homo-punk smut.
Matt Lambert and Jannis Birsner create a sexual subculture, playing with ideas of masculinity and sensual liberation.
Fusing their respective relationship to Berlin's underground and the LA punk scene, Jannis Birsner and Matt Lambert have created VITIUM: an entirely Berlin shot photo-zine, portraying the coital subculture of a fraternal cult.
Lambert published his first photobook, Keim, a sensual account of male intimacy, last year. The pages of VITIUM are populated by a much heavier and explicit contrast. This fraternal, sensual subculture uses sexuality as a wrapper, but it's a medium that speaks to mutual love, respect and friendship -- mirrored in the manifesto found on the pages of the zine.
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Baseline Court
Issue 13 of Cover. Download here.
Older issues available here.
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Out _The Laundromat Edition
Digital output on 80# text weight paper.
20 pages
Saddle Stitch
2023/24
All original photographs and scans with the exception of an original image of lye soap created by Teresa Foster.
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2019 France, le Havre
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Horror Decor New Public Collectors publication! Available for $9.00 here.
Public Collectors publication #82 is a photo booklet surveying five years of Halloween decoration documentation in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood area. From the back cover:
Every year I watch as my neighbors in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood add gruesome details to their homes for Halloween. Some people are ambitious and assemble constructions that look like they took months to acquire or create, but it’s the smaller and cheaper decorations that I’m particularly drawn to: a severed finger here, a scattering of bones there, with maybe some Caution! tape, or a rubber rat chewing on a foot tossed in for good measure. Simple, strange gestures like these can heighten our attention to other overlooked additions to our built and natural environment, revealing not just someone’s Halloween play, but other details that we mighthave ignored. What else are you seeing and what are you missing?
I shot these photos over the last five years. I have lived in Avondale since 2012, but it has taken me time to feel firmly situated and committed to making creative work about my neighborhood. I like having the time to observe slowly. Being mindful of privacy, I tend to zoom in rather than photograph someone’s entire house. It was hard to choose what to include, as I have enough material for four booklets, but ultimately this is what made the cut.
I invited David Canario to write this booklet’s introduction. David also lives in Avondale. We met a little over two years ago when we found ourselves working to address the same concerns about affordable housing and aggressive development in our ward. David spends a lot of time canvassing for progressive candidates and concerns, and he’s an avid cyclist so he sees a lot when he travels through Avondale. He’s also a horror buff, making him a perfect collaborator for a project like this.
— Marc Fischer / Public Collectors
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Sentinels in a foggy day
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No Thoughts 9
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