PUBLIC COLLECTORS

Public Collectors is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks individuals that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials to help reverse this lack by making their collections public.

This page consists of sample findings and excerpts. It is also an account of the contents of my home and digital files from my camera. If you have suggestions, have a collection you want to share, or are in Chicago and would like to see something in person, please contact me. This blog is intended as a casual, more personal supplement to the main Public Collectors website.

Public Collectors is maintained by Marc Fischer.

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Public Collectors Trading Post!

I have an extra copy of the artist book Fotografías by the collaborative duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss that I’d like to offer up for trade. This small, perfect bound, 98 page book is filled with many black and white detail photos of amateur or commercial-style paintings of animals, other creatures, landscapes and women. The book was printed in 2005 by the Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo in Mexico. A beautiful little book. I’ve never seen another copy outside of Mexico and this is in new condition.

If you have something you think I’d like that you’d like to offer in trade, please email me at marc@publiccollectors.org. I will send this book anywhere. Trades only.