Thrift Store: the Past + Future Secret Lives of Things
2003
edition 50
3.25 x 5.5 inches
40 pages
color photocopied 35 mm photographs, black & white photocopied text; letterpress printed paper-wrapped museum board covers; screw post bound; plastic bag; ink jet printed card stock tag
$100, 2 copies remain for sale only to subscribers
An album of photographs of thrift store objects and interiors illuminated by four brief essays: Organization & Entropy as a Model for the Universe, Narratives of Material Culture, The Relativity of Value, and The Metaphysics of Object-ness. Also available as an expanded trade edition from Ig Publishing.
Included in the following exhibitions: 2006 "Spotlight on Special Collections" Occidental College; 2003 Bookmobile Project/ Projet Mobilivre tour