PUBLIC COLLECTORS, by Marc Fischer
Public Collectors was published by Inventory Press, 2014, with 224 full color pages filled with new writing and images. The design of the book by Project Projects is stunning, as is the printing.
The book features numerous guest contributors presenting materials on a variety of subjects. Among the subjects documented and written about: Swap-O-Rama flea market, 10 years of street flyers from San Francisco, Hardcore histories, religious tracts, friendship books, South African herbalist ads, QSL cards, homemade record packaging, tea bag tags, the late Chicago music documentarian and activist Malachi Ritscher, Mexican lesson sheets, and much more.
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DELIVERANCE: Writings on Postal Relations by Marc Fischer
Deliverance was published by Soberscove Press, 2014. 56 pages.
“For as long as I can remember, I have depended on the U.S. Postal Service to bring new information and ideas into my world, and to help me share things with others.”
In 2010, Marc Fischer experienced postal trauma when he moved away from his beloved Nancy B. Jefferson Post Office on the Near West Side and became a customer of the Roberto Clemente Post Office in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, which was just three blocks from his apartment. “Rather than forfeit the ability to mail things close to home, I did what any normal person with access to social media would do: I kept going back there and then complained about it on the internet.” Gathered together for the first time, Deliverance presents all of Fischer’s Facebook post office—related posts since 2011. Part archive and part therapeutic exercise, this collection documents Fischer’s committed but fraught bond with Chicago’s post offices.
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