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The Mushroom Collector

Collector Grade · C- Rarity · Common Deal · Fair Confidence · Low
Green clothbound hardcover with silver foil stamping Hardcover English 192 pages 13.0 x 18.0 cm 0.42 kg

Experimental Legacy Market Signal

Rarity 8.8/100 · Collector 0/100 · Deal 60.45/100 · Listings: 7 · Avg price: $246.66 · Min price: $120.76

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Description

The Mushroom Collector is one of Jason Fulford’s most celebrated conceptual projects. The book’s origins lie in a flea market discovery—a manila envelope full of amateur photographs of mushrooms. Fulford used these “found” images as a starting point to create a visual scavenger hunt, blending them with his own photographs taken over many years. The resulting volume functions as a fictionalized field guide, where the act of mushroom hunting becomes a metaphor for the artistic process itself—searching for meaning in the dark. Through its 192 pages of disparate yet rhythmically linked images, the monograph investigates how humans impose order on the natural world and the unexpected beauty found in the pursuit of the unknown.