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 booklet consists of sample findings (or excerpts from publications) that were originally posted on the Public Collectors blog (publiccollectors.tumblr.com). These images are a selection pulled from nearly 650 images and scans that I posted between September 2009 and November 2010.
Public Collectors on Tumblr is intended as a casual, more personal supplement to the main Public Collectors website. I update the blog almost every day. It is a place for small things and for fragments of much larger things. It is also an account of the contents of my apartment and digital files from my camera. If you have a question about something in this booklet, or if you are in Chicago or passing through and would like to see something in person, please feel free to contact me."
- http://www.publiccollectors.org… (más)

"This booklet contains an interview with Marc Fischer of Public Collectors by Madeline Coleman that was originally conducted for the blog of the Montreal-based magazine Maisonneuve. Coleman’s introduction is followed by a slightly longer version of the interview that was posted to maisonneuve.org on February 28, 2011. Interview provides one of the fuller accounts of the background and intentions behind the project. The discussion includes thoughts on why individuals need to step up and share resources and experiences that museums lack, uses of the project so far, collecting versus hoarding, why a personal museum devoted to Vanilla Ice matters and more!"
- http://www.publiccollectors.org… (más)